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Answer the following questions.
1. Name three literary sources of the Vedic Period.
2. What is the importance of the Vedas?
3. What were the four stages into which the Aryans divided the span of human life?
4. A person was expected to inculcate particular values in each of the four stages
Brahmacharya, Grihastha, Vanaprastha and Sanyas. Describe them. [Value Based Q
Tell the reason.
(a) The stone-copper age is called so.
(b) We say that the Chalcolithic settlements were quite different from the Harappan settlen
(C) The Vedic Age is named so.
Answers
Answer:
1)The principal literary sources from this period are the Sama-, the Yajur-, and the Atharvaveda (mainly ritual texts), the Brahmanas (manuals on ritual), and the Upanishads (Upanisads) and Aranyakas (collections of philosophical and metaphysical discourses).
2)The Vedas. These are the most ancient religious texts which define truth for Hindus. They got their present form between 1200-200 BCE and were introduced to India by the Aryans. Hindus believe that the texts were received by scholars direct from God and passed on to the next generations by word of mouth
3)In the Later Vedic Period, the whole life-span of an Aryan came to be divided into four periods. The four stages of life are known as four ashramas, each of 25 years duration. The four ashramas are Brahmacharya, Grihastha, Vanaprastha, and Sanyasa.