Ancient Literature Flashcards
In the context of ancient india
Medicinal Science Text
what is the earliest known work?
- Atharva-veda
what’s combinely referred to as
Traiji
Rig-veda
Yajur-ved
Sam-veda
In regards to
Rigveda
what does the hyms speak about?
- Beautiful descriptions of nature
- Universally recognised higher values of life like
* truthfulness, honesty, dedication, sacrifice, politeness etc
In the context of rigveda
Prayers
what does it seek?
- the prayers are seeking worldly prosperity and
- For the development of the highly cultured society
In the context of ancient india
Rigveda
How does rigveda provides insight into?
Rivgveda provides knowledge about social, political, economical conditions of ancient india
in the context of Bramhman of vedas
Rigveda’s bramhan books
- Kaushitak
- Aitreya
in the context of
Yajurveda
what it’s contents talk about?
- Yajur-veda being the most popular of the four, gives detailed text about rituals and sacrifices.
- It gives direction to performance of Yajnas
in the context of Bramhman of vedas
Bramhan text of yajurveda
- Taitereya
- shatpath
Taitereya
belongs to Krishna Yajurveda
Shatpath
belongs to Shukla Yajurveda
in the context of ancient india,
Science of Music
which literatery work is referred to as ?
Upa-veda of Sama-veda
samaveda contains musical notes and considered as veda of music
Samaveda
contains 16k+ ragas and raginis or musical notes
also called as Gandharva veda
Panini
literary work?
Ashta-adhya-yi (ashtadhyayi)
another name is Astaka
Ashtadhyayi or astaka
Consist of 8 chapters and had rules and definitions to describe sankrit grammer
Amarsimha
sankrit grammarian and one of nine gems at court of Vikramaditya
