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In what ways does religion as reflected in the Vedic texts differ from the religion of the Gupta period?
- UPSC 1991
- Guptas, Vakatakas and Vardhanas
Vedic religion and Gupta-age religion belong to the same civilizational stream, yet a millennium and a half of social change separates a pastoral tribal cult of sacrifice from a temple-based, image-worshipping, Puranic Hinduism. The difference is not simply which gods were worshipped but the entire structure of the sacred — who mediated it, where it…
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- Gods and Cosmology
- Mode of Worship: Sacrifice versus Devotion
- Institutional Setting
- Textual Basis and Theology
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- Ethics, Law and the Afterlife
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