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1150 BCE
Development of the Vedas
Rig Veda--mantras to the gods
Atharva Veda--magical chants, spells, incantations
Yajur Veda--sacrificial formulae
Sama Veda--priest's chants -
200 BCE
Laws of Manu
Chapter 1: The creation of the world
Chapter 2-6: Regulation of life; conduct of Brahmins
Chapters 7: Life of Kings
Chapter 8-10: Customs and laws
Chapter 11: Penance for Misdeeds
Chapter 12: Karma -
100 BCE
Bhagavadgita
This most important part of the Mahabharata is the most famous of Hindu scriptures. The problem of renouncing the world is examined. -
200
Beginning of Vedanta System
Upanishads are a clarification of the Vedas. They are revealed scriptures of high importance. -
Dec 24, 800
Sankara
As a founder of an important school of Vedanta thought, he taught that Brahman is the whole. Change is Maya. -
Dec 24, 1100
Ramanuja
Bhakti Yoga is the last step toward salvation. Soul and God are distinguished. If maya exists in Brahman, the basis of all being, then maya is real. -
Gahndi
Gandhi's campaigns for national independence were based on satyagraha techniques to awaken the inner voice of the oppressors to the truth and rightness of their own heart. -
Death of Gahndi
Mahatma Gandhi is assassinated January 30th by Nathuram Godse, 35,
editor-publisher of a Hindu Mahasabha weekly in Poona, in retaliation for Gandhi's
concessions to Muslim demands and agreeing to partition 27% of India to create the
new Islamic nation of Pakistan. -
Rebordered
Indian government reorganizes states according to linguistic principles and
inaugurates second Five-Year Plan. -
Card Deal Out
The British Indian Empire was partitioned into two sovereign dominion states, the Union of India (later the Republic of India) and the Dominion of Pakistan
