Category: Ancient Indian people

: The Origin and Nature of Ancient Indian Buddhism, Delhi 1989

* Pargiter, Frederick Eden, Dr., Chronology based on: Ancient Indian Historical Tradition, Oxford University Press, H. Milford, 1924, Reprint 1997

Ancient Indian text on laws, such as Manusmṛti suggest a caste system was part of Indian society.

The Ancient Indian Kama Sutra, dating from the first century AD, describes oral sex, discussing fellatio in great detail and only briefly mentioning cunnilingus.

The Gupta Empire ( Sanskrit: ग ु प ् त र ा जव ं श, Gupta Rājavanśha ) was an Ancient Indian empire which existed approximately from 320 to 550 CE and covered much of the Indian Subcontinent.

The Atharvaveda, a sacred text of Hinduism dating from the Early Iron Age, is the first Indian text dealing with medicine, like the medicine of the Ancient Near East based on concepts of the exorcism of demons and magic.

Indian Ancient Sciences: Archaeology Based, ISBN-978-3-8383-9027-7, Lap Lambert-Germany.

Ancient Greek and Indian philosophers defined music as tones ordered horizontally as melodies and vertically as harmonies.

In Ancient Indian philosophy, materialism developed around 600 BC with the works of Ajita Kesakambali, Payasi, Kanada, and the proponents of the Cārvāka school of philosophy.

* Avari, Burjor, India: The Ancient Past: A history of the Indian sub-continent from c. 7000 BC to AD 1200, Routledge.

Ancient Indian medicine, Ayurveda has recommended its use in food for its medicinal value, much of which is now being researched in the modern day.

Ancient Indian ( Bharata ) cities and places.

Category: Ancient Indian rivers

The earliest explicit depictions of a triangle of binomial coefficients occur in the 10th century in commentaries on the Chandas Shastra, an Ancient Indian book on Sanskrit prosody written by Pingala in or before the 2nd century BC.

Rawlinson, in his book: Ancient and Medieval History of India claims the first Arab Muslims settled on the Indian coast in the last part of the 7th century.

The word derives from the Sanskrit ( Ancient Indian ) kshatriya via Old Persian: the full title of the Achaemenid rulers ( First Persian Empire ) was Kshatriya Kshatriyanamah, " King of Kings ".

The Ancient Indian Kama Sutra refers to people of a " third sex " ( triteeyaprakrti ), who can be dressed either in men's or in women's clothes and perform fellatio on men.

* " Ancient Indian Wisdom " by Dr. Ramendra published in International Humanist News

Category: Ancient Indian materialist philosophers

McCrindle's book Ancient India as Described in Classical Literature, where an Indian gem is said by the Roman historian to have a " surface is even redder than the shells of the sea-locust.

Category: Ancient Indian cities

The Book of Habakkuk is the eighth book of the Twelve Prophets of the Hebrew Bible, and this collection appears in all copies of texts of the Septuagint, the Ancient Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible completed by 132 BC.

Ancient Sri Lankan texts such as the Pujavaliya, Sadharmaratnavaliya and Yogaratnakaraya and inscriptional evidence show that the above hierarchy prevailed throughout the feudal period.

Ancient Egyptian texts dating from 2750 BC referred to these fish as the " Thunderer of the Nile ", and described them as the " protectors " of all other fish.

" Ancient Greek texts, especially from Biblical Koine onwards, are thus relatively easy to understand for educated modern speakers.

Ancient texts also refer to Jainism as shramana dharma ( self-reliant ) or the " path of the nirganthas " ( those without attachments or aversions ).

Ancient Chinese classical texts were transmitted without punctuation.

Inscriptions written by the Philistines have not yet been found or conclusively identified ; however, their early history is known to scholars from inscriptions in other ancient documents, such as Ancient Egyptian texts.

It was 20 years, however, before the decipherment of the Egyptian texts was announced by Jean-François Champollion in Paris in 1822 ; it took longer still before scholars were able to read other Ancient Egyptian inscriptions and literature confidently.

From this point, the stories of the Rosetta Stone and the decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphs diverge, as Champollion drew on many other texts to develop a first Ancient Egyptian grammar and a hieroglyphic dictionary, both of which were to be published after his death.

Max Weber published four major texts on religion in a context of economic sociology and his rationalization thesis: The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism ( 1905 ), The Religion of China: Confucianism and Taoism ( 1915 ), The Religion of India: The Sociology of Hinduism and Buddhism ( 1915 ), and Ancient Judaism ( 1920 ).

However in " The Ancient Celts " by Barry Cunliffe, on page 94 of that book, Professor Cunliffe writes ," All these pieces of equipment spears, swords, mail armour, mentioned in the texts, are reflected in the archaeological record and in the surviving iconography, though it is sometimes possible to detect regional variations.

Ancient commentaries on the Tao Te Ching are important texts in their own right.

Old Church Slavonic, Old Church Slavic ( OCS ) (, slověnĭskŭ językŭ ) was the first literary Slavic language, developed by the 9th century Byzantine Greek missionaries Saints Cyril and Methodius who were credited with standardizing the language and using it for translating the Bible and other Ancient Greek ecclesiastical texts as part of the Christianisation of the Slavic peoples.

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The various Canaanite nations of the Bronze to Iron Ages are mentioned in the Bible, Mesopotamian ( Assyrian and Babylonian ), Hittite and Ancient Egyptian texts.

During the 2nd millennium BC, Ancient Egyptian texts use the term Canaan to refer to an Egyptian-ruled colony, whose boundaries generally corroborate the definition of Canaan found in the Hebrew Bible, bounded to the west by the Mediterranean Sea, to the north in the vicinity of Hamath in Syria, to the east by the Jordan Valley, and to the south by a line extended from the Dead Sea to around Gaza.

Ancient Greek and Roman medical texts by Hippocrates, Theophrastus, Aulus Cornelius Celsus, Pedanius Dioscorides, and Pliny the Elder discussed the use of opium and Solanum species.

Peter Clark in Zoroastrianism: An Introduction to an Ancient Faith ( 1998, Brighton ) suggests the Gathas and older Yasna texts would not have retained their old-language qualities if they had only been orally transmitted.

Ancient Greek texts have also spoken of veiling and seclusion of women being practiced among the Persian elite.

Eventually, literary Attic ( and the classic texts written in it ) came to be widely studied far beyond its original homeland, first in the Classical civilizations of the Mediterranean ( Ancient Rome and the Hellenistic world ), and later in the Muslim world, Europe, and wherever European civilization spread to other parts of the world.

Students learning Ancient Greek today usually start with the Attic dialect, proceeding, depending on their interest, to the koine of the New Testament and other early Christian writings, or Homeric Greek to read the works of Homer and Hesiod, or Ionic Greek to read the histories of Herodotus and the medical texts of Hippocrates.

* Ancient Near East flood myths All texts: ( Ziusudra, Atrahasis, Gilgamesh, Genesis, Berossus ), commentary, and a table with parallels

The leaves and bark of the willow tree have been mentioned in ancient texts from Assyria, Sumer and Egypt as a remedy for aches and fever, and the Ancient Greek physician Hippocrates wrote about its medicinal properties in the fifth century BC.

Ancient texts confirm that city-wide development took place regularly.