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Bring out the salient features of the religious developments in the Post-Maurya period. How was contemporary art influenced by it?

  • UPSC 1988
  • Post-Mauryan Period

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The period c. 200 BCE–300 CE, spanning the Shungas, Satavahanas, Indo-Greeks, Shakas and Kushanas, saw the Mauryan imperial framework give way to plural regional and foreign polities. Religion mirrored this plurality: older sacrificial and monastic traditions persisted, but devotional worship of images in shrines became the era's decisive new departure. This shift in religious sensibility…

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  • The Rise of Mahayana Buddhism and the Cult of the Bodhisattva
  • Bhagavatism, Vaishnavism and the Making of Puranic Hinduism
  • Shaivism and the Survival of Popular Cults
  • Jainism, the Ajivikas and a Plural Religious Landscape
  • Foreign Rulers as Patrons: Legitimacy through Multiple Faiths
  • Art Transformed: The Rise of the Image
  • …and 3 more sections, with a conclusion
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