list five features of vedic age which have continue till today
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The Vedic period, or Vedic age (c. 1500 – c. 500 BCE), is the period in the late Bronze Age and early Iron Age of the history of India when the Vedic literature, including the Vedas (ca. 1300-900 BCE), was composed in the northern Indian subcontinent, between the end of the Urban Indus Valley Civilisation and a second urbanisation which began in the central Indo-Gangetic Plain c. 600 BCE. The Vedas are liturgical texts which formed the basis of the influential Brahmanical ideology, which developed in the Kuru Kingdom, a tribal union of several Indo-Aryan tribes. The Vedas contain details of life during this period that have been interpreted to be historical[1][note 1] and constitute the primary sources for understanding the period. These documents, alongside the corresponding archaeological record, allow for the evolution of the Indo-Aryan and Vedic culture to be traced and inferred.[2]
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1.Performing Havana or fire ritual: offering to fire was consider the utmost service to gods as agni was considered their messenger. “ agni dutam vrinimahe” . following our age old tradition , Havan is to be performed at the end if all pojas or worships.
2.Worshiping nature and its aspects: vedic people used to praise sun , moon , rivers , mountains , etc which were essential for their sustainability . following the same principles we worship surya narayan , chandraman, Ganga maiya ( mother Ganga ) , govardhan mountain, etc.
3.Using dance and music during rituals: the vedic were so found of songs and music that they had entire samavedam dedicated to it. Even today music and songs are integral part of worship . in rural areas were folk rituals dedicated to rural deities is performed , song , dance and music are a must.
4.Specific themes of songs: since , I belong to Bihar so I was luky enough to hear and understand folk songs sung at occasions of chhath. One of the songs focused on arrangements for marriage ceremony of goddess chhathi. It must be noted that even rigged contains a set of mantras dedicated to marriage of surya and sangya. There are a lot of songs composed in question and answer type which is a format common to Veda.
5.Respecting women: the Vedas contain a lot of female figures revered as goddess and they also teach us to respect females . hence, we tend to respect them.
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The early Vedic age is historically dated to the second half of the second millennium BCE.[9] Historically, after the collapse of the Indus Valley Civilisation, which occurred around 1900 BCE,[10][11] groups of Indo-Aryan peoples migrated into north-western India and started to inhabit the northern Indus Valley.[12] The Indo-Aryans represented a sub-group that diverged from other Indo-Iranian tribes at the Andronovo horizon[13] before the middle of the 2nd millennium BCE,[14][note 3] The Indo-Iranians originated in the Sintashta culture, from which arose the subsequent Andronovo horizon.[13] The Indo-Aryans migrated through the adjacent Bactria-Margiana area (present-day northern Afghanistan) to northwest India,[15][note 4] , followed by the rise of the Iranian Yaz culture at c. 1500 BCE, and the Iranian migrations into Iran at c. 800 BCE.