INDIAN LITERATURE

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QUIET!
 FORM OF LITERATURE WAS THE SHASTRAS,
 MAJOR ADDITIONS TO THE LITERATURE OF THE
INDIA ARE THE PURANAS AND THE
PANCHATANTRA BOOKS OF FABLES AND SHORT
TALES INTERSPERSED WOTH POETRY.
 PRODUCED PERSO-ARABIC WRITING INSPIRED
A LITERATURE IN URDU.
 ARSTIC FORM WAS THE GHAZAL, A STYLIZED
FORM OF LYRICAL FOLK SONG.
 THE MAHABHARATA, CONSIDERED THE
NATIONAL EPIC OF INDIA, AND THE RAMAYANA.
SALUTATION TO THE DAWN
LOOK TO THIS DAY!
FOR IT IS LIFE , THE VERY LIFE OF LIFE
IN IT’S BRIEF COURSE
LIE ALL THE VERITIES AND REALITIES OF YOUR EXISTENCE:

The bliss of growth

the glory of action
the splendor of beauty

FOR YESTERDAY IS BUT A DREAM

AND TOMORROW IS ONLY A VISION
BUT TODAY LIVE MAKES
EVERY YESTERDAY A DREAM OF HAPPINESS
AND EVERY TOMORROW A VISION OF HOPE.
LOOK WELL, THERE FOR, TO THIS DAY!
SUCH IS THE SOLUTION TO THE DRAWN.
 READING 1
 FOR IT IS LIFE, THE VERY LIFE OF LIFE
 YES, LIE ALL THE VERITIES AND REALITIES
 THE BLISS OF GROWTH
 THE GLORY OF ACTION
 THE SPLENDER OF BEAUTY
 LOOK TO THIS DAY, LOOK WELL, THERE FOR
TO THIS DAY
 SALUTATION TO THE DAWN
 READING 2

 THE CHILD DECK WITH PRINCE’S ROBES

AND WHO HAS JEWELED CHAINS
ROUND HIS NECK
 THE CLEAR STREAM OF REASON HAS
NOT LOST IT’S WAY INTO THE DREARY
DESERT SAND OF DEAD HABIT
 THE SWEET VINTAGE OF ALL MY
AUTUMM DAYS AND SUMMER NIGTHS
IF THE DAY IS DONE, IF BIRDS SING NO
MORE, IF THE WIND HAS FLAGGED
TIRED, THEN THE VEIL OF DARKNESS
THICK UPON ME, EVEN AS THOU
WRAPPED THE EARTH WITH THE
COVERLET OF SLEEP, AND TENDERLY
CLOSE THE PETALS OF THE DROOPING
LOTUS AT DUSK.
WHEN I AM DEAD, PUT ME IN MY
GRAVE
 IS DESCRIBED AS DAY IS DONE, WHEN BIRDS
SING NO MORE, AND WHEN THE WIND HAS
FLAGGED BECAUSE IT IS TIRED.
 AS WRAPPED IN THE COVERLET OF SLEEP,
AND TENDERLY CLOSING THE PETALS OF THE
DROOPING LOTUS AT DUSK.
 EVOKING THE FEELING OF DELICATE
GENTLENESS, CARE, AND AFFECTION.
 TRADITIONS AND CUSTOMS
 The first and the supreme culture in the world
 Every aspect of human development was seen as
driven evolution
 In this view, societies outside of Europe or north
America or societies did not follow the European or
the western way of life, were considered primitive
and culturally inferior
 Essential included all the colonize countries and
people, such as African countries, India and the far
east.
 India has 28 states and seven territories
 BELIEFS AND CULTURE OF INDIA
LANGUAGE
There is no official language of India , according to a
Gujarat high court ruling in 2010 , though Hindi is a
Officially language of the government.
The constitution of India Officially recognize 23 official
language.
Many people living in India write in Devanagari script .
It is misconception that majority people in India speak
Hindi.
Many people speak Hindi in India, 59% of India residents
speak Something's other than Hindi ,according to the times
of India.
Bengali, Telugu, Marathi, Tamil, and Urdu are some other
languages spoken in the country.
 Language started has been a point of
argument amongst linguist.
People have been debating the arrival of
indo European languages of India for hundred
of years.
There’s been a very long running debate
about whether the indo European languages
were brought from migrations from outside,
which is what most linguist would accept, or if
they evolve indigenously.
 RELIGION
 India is identified as the birthplace of Hinduism and
Buddhism, the third and fourth largest religious.
 13% Indians are Muslim, making it one of the largest
Islamic nations in the world.
 Handbook of research on development and religion.
 Christians and Sikhs make up a small percentage of
the population, and there are even fewer Buddhists
and Jains.
 Around 80% of the population is Hindu, 14.2% is
Muslim, 2.3% is Christian, 1.7% is Sikh and 2% is
unspecified.
 FOOD
 It is known for its large assortment of dishes and its liberal use of
herbs and spices.
 Basmati rice and pulses with chana ( BENGAL GRAM ) are important
staples of the Indian diet. The food is rich with curries and spices,
including ginger, coriander, cardamom, tumeric, dried hot peppers,
and cinnamon among the others.
 Chutneys – thick condiments and spread other herbs are used
generously in Indian cooking.
 Many Hindus are vegetarian, but lamb chicken are common in main
dishes for non vegetarians .
 The guardian reports that between 20% and 40% of India's population
is vegetarian.
 Much of Indian food is eaten with fingers or bread use utensils.
 There is a wide array of breads served with meals, including nan, a
leavened, oven baked flatbread, and bhatoora, a fried, fluffy flatbread
common in north India and eaten with chickpea curry.
 ARCHITECTURE AND ART
 It combines elements from Islamic, Persian, ottoman Turkish,
and Indian architecture styles.
 Indian also has many ancient temples.
 Is well known for its film industry, which is often referred to
as Bollywood.
 Dance, music, and theater traditions span back more than
2,000 years, according to nilima bhadbhade, “CONTRACT
LAW IN INDIAN”
 The major classical dance traditions bharata Nat yam, Katha,
odissi, Manipuri etc. Draw on themes from mythology and
literature and have rigid presentation rules.
 The journal archaelogyfound that some
Indian horns have many similarities with
horns made in ireland.
 Some horns are frankly shockingly similar, to
the point where it is like witnessing time
travel
 If I were to find one of this modern Indian
instruments in an Irish archaeological
excavation and I didn’t know what I was
looking at, I would likely assume it was late
bronze age Irish artifact.
 CLOTHING
A traditional piece of clothing for
men is the dhoti, an unstitched
piece of cloth that is tied around the
waist and legs.
Men also wear a Karta a loose shirt
that is worn about knee length.
It is buttoned up to the collar and
down to the knees.
 CUSTOMS AND CELEBRATIONS
It is a five day festival of lights
because of the lights because of the
lights lit during the celebration to
symbolize the inner light that
protects them spiritual darkness.
Holy, the festival of colors, also
called the festival of love, is popular
in the spring.
 GODS AND GODDESSES
OLYMPIAN GODS – from the all the
way down to the many minor gods.
GREEK GODDESSES – have
exaggerated personalities and they
are plagued with personal flaws and
negative emotions.
 THEIR NAMES & REALMS OF INFLUENCE
 ACHELOUS- The patron god of the “silver-swirling”
anchelous river.
 AEOLUS- Greek god of the winds and air.
 AETHER- Primordial god of the upper air, light, the
atmosphere, space and heaven.
 ALASTOR- God of family founds and avenger of evil
deeds
 APOLLO-Olympian god of music, poetry, art,
oracles, archery, plague, medicine, sunlight and
knowledge.
 ARES- God of war represented the physical, violent and
untamed aspect of war.
 ARISTAEUS-Minor patron god of animal husbandry, bee-
keeping, and fruit trees. Son of a polo.
 ASCLEPIUS- God of medicine, health, healing rejuvenation
and physicians.
 ATLAS- The primordial titan of astronomy, condemned by
Zeus to carry the world on his back after the titans lost the
war.
 ATTIS- A minor god of vegetation, fruits of the earth and
rebirth.
 BOREAS- A wind god (ANEMOI) and Greek god of the cold
north wind and the bringer of winter. “NORTH WIND”
 CAERUS- Minor god of opportunity, luck and favorable
moments
 CASTOR- One of the twins, castor and pollex, known as
dioskouri . Zeus transformed them into the constellation
Gemini.
 CERUS- The large and powerful wild bull tamed by
Persephone and turned into the Taurus constellation Gemini
 CERUS- The large and power full tamed by Persephone and
turned to the Taurus constellation.
 CHAOS- The nothingness that all else sprung from. A god
who filled the gap between heaven and earth created the
first being Gaia, tartar us, Uranus, nix, and Erebus.
 CHARON- The ferryman of hades . Took the newly dead people across the
rivers Styx and Acheron to the Greek underworld if they paid him three
obolus ( a Greek silver coin )
 CRONOS- The god of time. Not to be confused with Cronus,, the titan
father of Zeus.
 CRIOS- The titan god of the heavenly constellations and the measure of
the year.
 CRONUS-God of agriculture, leader and they youngest of the first
generation of titans and the father of the titans. Not to be confused with
cronos, god of time
 DINLAS- Guardian god of the ancient city Lamarck, where wounded
heroes could find comfort and heal after battle, he was the son of
Aphrodite.
 DEIMOS- Deimos is the personification of dread and terror.
 DIONYSUS- An Olympian god of the grape harvest, wine making and
wine, or ritual madness, religious and ecstasy and theatre
 EREBUS- Primordial god of darkness
 EROS- God of sexual desire, attraction, love and procreation
 EURUS- One of the wind god known as anemia and
god of the unlucky east wind “ THE EAST WIND”
 GLAUCUS- A fisherman who became immortal upon
eating a magical herb, an Argonaut who may built
and piloted the Argo, and became god of the sea.
 HADES- God of the death and riches and king of the
underworld
 HELIOS- God of the son and also known as sol.
 HEPHAESTUS- God of fire, metalworking, forges
and the art of sculpture. Created weapons for the
gods and married to Aphrodite.
 HERACLES- The greatest Greek of the heroes,
 GROUP 5
LESLEY CARREON
MARK LOYD LAMORETE
WENDEL HALOG
TRAVIS VILLALON
8 ST. PAUL
MS. ANGELYN CARDENAS