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Discuss briefly the development of religious ideas and rituals in the Vedic age. Do they show any parallelism with the religion of the Indus Civilization?

  • UPSC 1989
  • Aryans and Vedic Period

Vedic religion did not stay static across the roughly nine centuries the corpus spans — it moved from the simple nature-worship and household sacrifice of the early Rigveda to the elaborate, priest-dominated ritualism of the later Brahmanas, and finally toward the philosophical introspection of the Upanishads. Running this trajectory alongside what little can be reconstructed…

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  • Early Vedic Religion: Nature Personified, Sustained by Sacrifice
  • Later Vedic Religion: From Simple Rite to Priestly Science
  • The Upanishadic Turn: From Ritual to Knowledge
  • Parallelism with Indus Religion

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