Traditional India - 1-24-07

1-24-07 Carleton Nataraj Bull/Shiva Pipal Dravidians Aryans

Sanskrit Goa Sasseti Jones Muller Penka

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2700-1200 bc – Homogenous Public baths, spiritual worship, drainage systems, streets, ect… (advanced civilization) Form of government – priests and kings, uniformity of traditions, century of conservatives (didn’t like change) Communal system, river based economy, river navigation, domesticated animals. Bronze Age technology, tools and weapons, gold and silver for jewelry. Hundreds of seals/coins (currency?) Example of a script. 400 hundred alphabets. Have not been able to decipher pictolanguage. A great deal of art. Art in homes, tools, toys, statues, ect... o Found a bronze figure of a aborigine girl with her hand on her hip. (possible descendents?)to  Becomes a Hindu precursor to Shiva. Findings of animals carved in metal and stone. o Squirrels; monkeys (often shown in sets of three. Precursor for hear, see, speak no evil??) Findings of elements of a religion. Seals found with carvings of the bull which is known as Shiva in Hinduism o Arguments over the idea of the bull/Shiva come from the IVC. (Hinduism was later founded by the Aryans. Nataraj – lord of the dance. (Shiva?) Had a lot of different weapons but did not have the sword which becomes a big problem when the Aryans invade. Dravidians – the peoples of the IVC. o Where did they come from? No one knows for sure but the theory is that they were descendents of the Australian Aborigines. (a lot of similarities between the two)  Theory produced by A.L. Basham  Andamar and Nicobar o 1600-1500 bc, invaders (Aryans) come through the Khyber pass.

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Aryans – light skinned, emerged from south Russia, tribal, barbaric o Immigrations took place in three ways  1) Through Germany. 2) Middle East 3) to the Dravidians through India. o For 300 hundred years, the Aryans invaded and destroyed the Dravidians. o Why did the Dravidians fall/die?  Trouble in paradise (natural disasters such and floods and earthquakes), economic decline, superstitious, homes began to fall into ruins, and did not move away to rebuild.  The Dravidians were not the only race there. They were the majority but evidence of some type of rebellion from the minority.  Series of floods from the Indus River. They did not move to higher grounds  Final blow delivered by the Aryans. Aryans has and were masters of the swords and horse. The I.V.C did not have the sword.