3 results for “वैदिक धर्म”
Vedic religion centred on hymns, sacrifice and deities associated with natural, social and cosmic forces. Indra, Agni, Varuna and Soma were especially prominent in the Rigvedic period, while Later Vedic ritual became more elaborate and royal sacrifices gained political importance.
The Rigvedic period is reconstructed primarily from the Rigveda. Its world was centred largely in the northwestern subcontinent, with cattle pastoralism playing a major economic role alongside agriculture. Political organization revolved around kin groups, chiefs and assemblies.
Around the sixth century BCE, the growth of states, towns, trade, crafts and new social groups coincided with major religious and philosophical questioning. Shramana traditions, including Jainism, Buddhism and the Ajivikas, developed within this wider social and intellectual transformation.
