Concepts Flashcards
(115 cards)
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El-Hind, Hodu, Sindhu, Sinda, Indus, India
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Indo-Gangetic Plain
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Sanskrit, Indo-European Family
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Rig Veda
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Sura / Asura
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Indra, Agni, Soma
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Yajvan / Yajamana
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yajvan: conducts sacrifice
yajamana: pays for sacrifice
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shri vs papman
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good vs darkness
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brahminim and kshatriya/rajanaya
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brahmanas
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commentary on vedas, science of links, emphasis on knowledge
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samhita
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first order texts
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rig veda, samaveda, yajurveda, atharveda
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hymns for sacrifice / musical accompaniment / ritual offering formulas / magical spells
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tapas, sanyasin
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inner fire,heat,discipline / ascetic with moksha as goal
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prana-agnihotra
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internalization of external sacrifice
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karma, samsara, moksha
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Agivika
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deterministic sect without belief in karma
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Lokaiyata
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Only empirical exists sect
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Mahavira
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great here, founder of jainism, also known as varhamana (6th BCE)
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Shramana
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one who wanders
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ahimsa
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non-violence
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the middle way
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four noble truths
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three jewels of Buddhism
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Buddha, Dharma, Sangha
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The pali cannon
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sutta = lesson; vinaya = rules; abhidarma
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Upasaka
lay supporters of Buddha, provide for Shramanas
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Megasthenas
wrote Indica book, ambassador of seleucus empire, visited maurya empire during ____ period
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Ashoka and Maurya
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Alexander the great
in india 326/7
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Menander / milinda
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Gandhara art
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arta Shastra
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bhratr
brother
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Yudishthara
eldest pandava brother, weakness for dice, son of dharma teacher, married to draupadi, loses kingdom in a best, goes to heaven then to hell, sees brothers suffering - curses dharma (while kauvyas are in heaven)
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Arjuna
son of madri and indra
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Draupadi
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Vyasa
son of satyavi (Daughter of fisherman king) and parashara. Ascetic. has 3 children with brothers wives, bio father of main characters
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Krishna
mischevous Vishnu avatar, godhavari mt
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Valmiki
inventory of poetry
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sita
lakshmana
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ravana
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hanuman
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itihasa / kavya
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sutra and shastra
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for purposes of life
kama, artha, dharma, moksha
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varnasramadharma
social order subordinate to uni order; varnas: brahmin, kshatriya, vaishyas, sudras
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ashramas
student, househould, forest dweller, renunciate
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manu dharmashastra
karmas as arresting (supreme good) vs advancing (happiness)
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six darshanas
Samkhya, yoga, nyaya, vaisheshika (7 padarthas compose uni), mimasma (brahmin orthodoxy), brahma sutras (vendanta)
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10 avatars of vishnu
fish, turtle, boar, warrior, rama, krishna, man-lion, dwarf, buddha (jataka), future
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Govardhana and Krishna
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Shiva
father is brahma
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samudragupta
second gupta, expands empire, confederacy with taxes, inscriptions above ashokas on pillars
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Fa-Hien
chinese traveler to gupta empire
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Rudradaman
from Century asia, ruled in 2nd century, sanskrit as government language
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Ashvaghosa
wrote episodes of buddha's life in sanskrit (Buddhism turns to Sanskrit); first sanskrit dramatist; 1st-2nd cent; court writer
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kalidasa
court of chandragupta II 4th-5th cent, slave of kali to become wise, married edu princess, originally stupid, raghuvamsa and kumarasambhava
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mantra and tantra
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mandala
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subtle body/ chakras/kandalini
kandalini is female entity inside that drinks drops
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alankara; dhwani; rasa
alankara means ornament; dhwani means sound
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Avhinvagupta
950-1016, tantra, kashmir shaivisn, all in shiva, only consciousness = pleasure, externalization of god, 4 levels of lang
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three kingdoms of south
chola, pandaya, churla
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akam, puram
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agastya
small dwarf sent by indra to make mt stop growing, brouht grammar and sanskrit to S India
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Tolkapayam
Brihadisvara Temple
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Raja raja cholda in thanjavur
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Kamban
author of ramavataram
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Sekkilar
Kamban contemporaryl composed "Great" purana, 63 bios of shiva followers (Nayanas)
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James Heitzman
on chola temples
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sundarer
bhakti poet, marries temple danncer but marriage cancelled because of shiva
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palava and chalukya
dandin
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viraha
absence of god
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bhakti's 7 characteristics
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Shankara
enters body of amara sataka to learn more about the kama sutra
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Advaita vedanta
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Ramanuja an Visistadvaita-vedanta
Madvha and Dvaitavedanta
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Bhagavata-purana
sanskrit, vishnu, bhakti linked to upanishads
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Basava
Does opposite of Brahmins; left-hand (self-made, jobs that don't connect to land); vira-Shaivism - violence, monotheism
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Left-hand community
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Sthavara and Jangama
standing and moving
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Pari-Purana and Basava-purana
basava-purana: cannon of vira-Shaivism
Takes its principles from the pari-purana, which is a collection of important pieces from the cholas (Tamil)
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Alama-Prabhu
comes after Basava, establishes foundation of vira-shaivism, but not as revolutionary (more like a primeminister)
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Mahadevi-aka
left home and walked around with only hair covering body - wrote vacanas
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Muhammed ibn al Qasim
invades Punjab, doesn't destroy Multan temple
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Multan
Temple that is preserved but a third of revenue goes to Muslims
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Ahl al-Kitab
(of the book) special status of jews and christians in muslim empire
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Ahal A-Dhimma
People with protected status in Muslim Kingdom, expected to pay jizya tax
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Mahmud of Ghazni
1st to call himself a sultan, raided Gujarat
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Al-Bironi
Wrote treatise on Indian History in court of Mahmoud of Ghazni
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Mo'in al-Din Chishti
early sufi, his grave become an important sufi center
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Battle of Tarain
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Ala Udin Khilji
Raids interior of India and innovates management of empire
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Malek Kafur
represents new elite hindu body guard warrior, during reign of Alauddin Khaulji
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Amir Khusro
disciple of Nizam
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Nizamuddin
disciple of Chisti, delhi center, connection between sufi and sultan begins
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Muhammad Ibn Tughluq
Builds 2nd capitol in Daulatabad to manage southern empire, but is very weak. Weakened further by mongol invasion
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Matham
education and spiritual institution found in many strands of Hinduism in Vijanagara emire, played a role in crowning kings, and in spiritual debates
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The Sangma brothers
consolidated Vijanagara state, and renamed the city: "City of victory"
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Krishna Deva Raya
king of vijanagara at peak, Shaivism to Vaishnavism
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Gisu Daraz
Returns south and becomes Sufi of Gulbarga (Bahmani kingdom) at invitation of Firaz Shah
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Firaz Shah
king during Darez's life
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Ibrahim Adel Shah II
Bijaypur, post Vijanagara state - renames the city: "City of wisdom"; tantra and sufism flourishes
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Akbar
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Faizi
indo-muslim poetry and akbar ambassador
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abu al fazel
akbar historian
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fatehpur sikri
akbar founds this as capital near Aka - uses Indo-persian architecture
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Mansabar
military rank in Akbar's army...?
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Din-i Ilahi
Sufi Sect / syncretic religion under Akbar
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Tudar Mal
general under Akbar, managed administrative state
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Dara Shikoh
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Mukti Mandapam
Hall in Banaras Temple where all the Brahmin elite sat to judge religious issues of families that migrated to Banaras from around the region
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Aurangzeb
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Shivaji
Carved Maratha kingdom out of Bijapur sultanate and fought guerilla warfare against mughals. Takes mughal attention away from consolidating empire
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Shah Jalal Mujarrad
Sufi that spreads Islam to Bengal; Ibn Battuta comes to meet him
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Bahr al-Hayat
Persian book of yoga - presenting it as equivalent to Sufism
