Impact of Vedic Culture on Society

by Kaushik Acharya | 2020 | 120,081 words

This page relates ‘Mingling of Cultures (Q): The Kishkindhas’ of the study on the Impact of Vedic Culture on Society as Reflected in Select Sanskrit Inscriptions found in Northern India (4th Century CE to 12th Century CE). These pages discuss the ancient Indian tradition of Dana (making gifts, donation). They further study the migration, rituals and religious activities of Brahmanas and reveal how kings of northern India granted lands for the purpose of austerities and Vedic education.

Mingling of Cultures (Q): The Kiṣkindhās

Impact of vedic culture along with the purāṇic culture can also be experienced through Dhulev Plates (c. 695-696 CE)[1] issued by the King Mahārāja Bhetti of Ruler of a small kingdom of Kiṣkindhā records a grant of the agrahāra Ubbaraka-village to Bhaṭṭi-Nāga, a brāmaṇa of Candrātreya-sago tra and of Vājasaneya-caraṇas for the augmentation of merit to the ruler himself.

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[1]:

Ibid., pp. 575-579.

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