INTRODUCTION TO INDIAN LITERATURE• 500 BC- CONSIDERABLE BODY

OF LITERATURE •COMMON ANCESTRAL

LANGUAGE- SANSKRIT – MEANS SACRED

•LIT. –CULTIVATION OF THE INNER AND OUTER LIFE OF A REMARKABLE PEOPLE

•EXTENDS FROM REMOTE PAST TO THE PRESENT

INTRODUCTION TO INDIAN LITERATURE (CONT’)

• EARLIEST IS VEDAS-COLLECTION OF OF TRADITIONS

HANDED DOWN BY WORD OF MOUTH

•HYMNS ADDRESSED TO THE HINDU gods WHO ARE VERY

NUMEROUS

•INDIA –CENTER OF AN ANCIENT CICVILIZATION, EAST AND SOUTH

INTRODUCTION TO INDIAN LITERATURE (CONT’)

•INFLUENCED THE LANGUAGE AND CULTURE OF MANY COUNTRIES IN

BOTH EUROPE AND ASIA.•INDIAN CIVILIZATION IS OLDER THAN THAT OF THE ANCEINET GREEKSAND

ROMANS.SAVAGES , FOREST OF ENGLAND,FR, IT AND G INIDANS

ALREADY HAD A A HIGHLY DEVELOPED CIV.,PROD. MASTERPIECES IN THE

ARTS..

INTRODUCTION TO INDIAN LITERATURE (CONT’)

•INDIAN PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION GREATLY INFLUENCED BOTH THE EAST AND THE WEST.•LONG BC, THEY WERE ALREADY

PREACHING BORTHER HOOD ANF FETHERHOOD OF GOD.

•INDIAN CULTURE HAS DISTINCTIVE AND INTERESTING

CULTURE

INTRODUCTION TO INDIAN LITERATURE (CONT’)

•INDIAN LIT.DEVELOPED 3 THOUS. YEARS AGO,, RICH IN SOPIRITUAL AND IMAGINATIVE

VALUES.

•I GAVE US TRIGONOMETRY, FIRST GRAMMAR BOOKS, STUDY OF PHONETICS AND THE GAME

OF CHESS.

CHARACTERISTICS OF INDIAN LITERATURE •IT IS BASED ON PIETY, A DEEPLY

RELIGIOUS SPIRIT.

•BELIEVED THAT AKNOWLEDGE OF GOD AND A SRONG BELIEF IN

HIMDUISM WILL SAVE MAN.

•THE EATRLIEST POEMS, THE VEDAS ARE THE BIBLE OF THE

INIDANS.

CHARACTERISTICS OF INDIAN LITERATURE

•THE INDIAN LITERARY MASTERPIECES CORRESPONDS TO THE GREAT EPOCHS IN THEIR

HISTORY.

•MAHABHARATA , LONGEST EPIC IN WORLD LIT.

•BELIEF IN INCARANATION

•ABSTAIN INDESTRYO\ING PALANTS BECAUSE OF THIS.

CHARACTERISTICS OF INDIAN LITERATURE •RAMAYANA – INCARNATION OF

VISHNU, IN THE PERSON OF RAMA.

•MAHABHARATA- REINCARNATION OF VISHNU IN

THE PERSON OF KRISHNA

•REINCAR. OF VIHSNU –AVATARS,APPEARANCE OF GOD

IN THE FORM OF HUMAN BEINGS.

CHARACTERISTICS OF INDIAN LITERATURE

•NINE AVATARS HAVE BEEN TAKEN PLAE.NAD THE TENTH

STILL TO COME.

•WHEN THE 10TH COME, END OF THE WORLD AND RESTORE

PEACH AND UNITY.

CHARACTERISTICS OF INDIAN LITERATURE •RAMAYANA – ADVENTURES OF

RAMA AND HIS WIFE SITA , CHILD OF MOTHER EARTH.

•PERFECT SYMBOL OF WIFELY DEVPTION AND SELF-SACRIFICE

FOR THE BELOVED.•MAHABHARATA- GRETSEST

EPIC OF INDIA.STORY OF CIVIL WAR IN THE EARLY YEARS OF

ARYYAN OCCUPATIONOF INDIA.

CHARACTERISTICS OF INDIAN LITERATURE •RAMAYANA – INCARNATION OF

VISHNU, IN THE PERSON OF RAMA.

•MAHABHARATA- REINCARNATION OF VISHNU IN

THE PERSON OF KRISHNA

•REINCAR. OF VIHSNU –AVATARS,APPEARANCE OF GOD

IN THE FORM OF HUMAN BEINGS.

RAMAYANA – INCARNATION OF VISHNU, IN THE PERSON OF

RAMA.

MAHABHARATA- REINCARNATION OF VISHNU IN

THE PERSON OF KRISHNA

REINCAR. OF VIHSNU –AVATARS,APPEARANCE OF GOD IN THE FORM OF HUMAN BEINGS.

CHARACTERISTICS OF INDIAN LITERATURE

•MAHABHARATA-TWO RIVAL BANDS OF BROTHERS,

DESCNEDANTS PF A COMMON GRANDFATHER, KING PANDA.

•WHEN HE DIED, HE LEFT HIS FIVE SONS IN THECARE OF HIS

BROTHER HWO WAS TO BE REGENT WHILE HIS SONS WER

STILL MINORS.

CHARACTERISTICS OF INDIAN LITERATURE

•THE REGENT HIMSELF HAD MANY SONS AND THEY COVETED THE KINGDOM FOR THEMSELVES.

•THE RESULT WAS A PERIOD OF INTRIGUES AND MANY BATTLES

WHICH RESULTED IN THE EXILE OF THE FIVE BROTHERS.

•INTERESTINGLY, THE MRANAW EPIC DARANGAN HAS MANY ELEMENTS

AND EPISODES DERIVED FROM MAHABHARATA & RAMAYANA.