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  • Essay / Indian Society and Thought Before the Time of Buddha

    Every civilization had its origin, but most likely, that origin is either covered in dust or ruined by the proliferation of internal wars or external conquests. Fortunately, with the help of modern science, we can go back even further in history than before. New technologies have allowed archaeologists to unearth many mysterious artifacts that could change world history or at least make a contribution to world history. Add more evidence with scientific means to provide information that has been left out for thousands of years. This paving the way for historical phenomenology, let us turn our attention to Indian civilization, the civilization before the Buddha, mainly exploring the Indus civilization, the Aryans and Brahmanism. According to archaeological evidence, the Indus Civilization appears in India around 3000 BCE. This is approximately 2,500 years before the Buddha. This civilization begins with the Bronze Age and appears to be around the same time as the civilization that appeared in Mesopotamia. The Indus Civilization, otherwise known as the Harappa-Mohenjodaro Civilization, took its origin, name and form from the Indus River (Sanskrit Sindhu) in northwest India. The Harappa-Mohenjodaro civilization is believed to have a well-developed social and economic structure. Evidence from excavation sites suggests that this civilization flourished in the Indus Valley between the third and second millennia BCE and spread eastward into the Ganges Valley and southeast at least up to Gujarat. This civilization is also believed to have had trading contact with the pre-Babylonian Sumerians of the Mesopotamian region of modern-day Iraq, as an archaeologist discovered similar art...... middle of paper .... ..John. Mohenjo-Daro and the Indus Civilization: official account of the archaeological excavations at Mohenjo-Daro carried out by the Indian government between the years 1922 and 1927. Asian Educational Services, 1996.Olivelle, Patrick. Upanishads. Oxford University Press, 1998. Porter, J. H. “Caste in India.” American Anthropologist 8, no. 1 (January 1, 1895): 23-30.Possehl, Gregory L. The Indus Civilization: A Contemporary Perspective. Rowman Altamira, 2002. Upadhyaya, K.N. Early Buddhism and the Bhagavadgita. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1971. Walters, J. Donald. The Hindu path to awakening: its revelation, its symbol, an essential vision of religion. Crystal Clarity Publishers, 1998.Warder, AK Indian Buddhism. Motilal Banarsidass Publ., 2004. Woodburne, AS “The Idea of ​​God in Hinduism”. The Journal of Religion 5, no. 1 (January 1, 1925): 52–66.