Our Oriental Heritage By Durant

Question 1

Oldest work of philosophy

Answer 1

The ancient Egptian “Instructions of Ptah-hotepb,” written around 2880 B.C. P, retired prime minister, intended the work as a manual of wise advice for his son.

Question 2

Akbar (“very great”)

Answer 2

benevolent and intellectual early modern Indian emperor

Question 3

Mahabharata contains the Bhagavad Gita

Answer 3

M is a great collection of Hindu writings like the Jewish Talmud. One of those writings, the BG (Song of the Lord) of the story of a war between two related purples over a kingdom that one list to the other in a rigged dude game. A warrior of the dismissed, Arjuna, makes a famous soliloquy condemning the mutual fratricidal slaughter but the god Krishna reminds him that it is his caste duty as a warrior to fight and reminds him that all the fallen soldiers have immortal reincarnating souls in any case and that the battle is just one small scene in their endless cycle of birth and rebirth.