These include Hindu astrology ( also known as " Indian astrology " and in modern times referred to as " Vedic astrology ") and Chinese astrology, both of which have influenced the world's cultural history.

The Vedic literature, Srimad-Bhagavatam, reject from its very beginning kaitava-dharma or false philosophy, thus it frankly speaks about the principle of material life, and it does have a meaningful relation to celibacy.

But the standard model holds the arrival of Indo-Aryans to have been in the Late Harappan which gave rise to the Vedic civilization of the Early Iron Age.

The multitude of deities, or Devas, of the historical Vedic religion have a subordinate and secondary status vis-a-vis the One Supreme God, a status that some authors have even tried to express by comparing it to that of Western demigods or angels ; Prakashanand Saraswati, in " The true history and the religion of India ", prefers the term " celestial gods ".

This sarpasattra material was often considered an independent tale added to a version of the Mahabharata by " thematic attraction " ( Minkowski 1991 ), and considered to have a particularly close connection to Vedic ( Brahmana ) literature.

Occult concepts have existed in the Vedic stream too.

" Soma " is Vedic Sanskrit for moon, describing both the shape of the bulb and its nocturnal juice emission, which in ancient times would have been visible by moonlight only.

Languages which utilize vowel length or intonation rather than or in addition to syllabic accents in determining meter, such as Ottoman Turkish or Vedic, often have concepts similar to the iamb and dactyl to describe common combinations of long and short sounds.

Proponents of cultural transmission have looked for links between Iron Age Celtic, Greek and Vedic philosophy and religion, some even suggesting that belief in reincarnation was present in Proto-Indo-European religion.

For example, Taxila was an early centre of Vedic learning, possible from the 6th century BC or earlier ; the Platonic Academy founded in Athens in the 4th century BC seems to have included theological themes in its subject matter ; the Chinese Taixue delivered Confucian teaching from the 2nd century BC ; the School of Nisibis was a centre of Christian learning from the 4th century AD ; Nalanda in India was a site of Buddhist higher learning from at least the 5th or 6th century AD ; and the Moroccan University of Al-Karaouine was a centre of Islamic learning from the 10th century, as was Al-Azhar University in Cairo.

Mythological River Saraswati / Vedic Saraswati ( also known as Saraswati Nadi, Saraswati Nala, Sarsuti and Chautang in certain places, variously spelt as Sarasvati ) is believed to have flowed during 6000 – 3000 BC from the melting glaciers of Garhwal Himalaya to Arabian Sea through the Thar Desert1, 2.

* A few Indo-European languages, namely Ancient Greek, Swedish, Norwegian, Limburgish, Lithuanian, the West South Slavic languages ( Slovene and Serbo-Croatian ), Vedic Sanskrit, and Punjabi have limited word-tone systems which are sometimes called pitch accent or " tonal accents ".

Names of Indo-Aryan gods Mitra and Varuna especially, from the Vedic religion have survived in texts and personal names, but it is not known if any religious centers actually existed.

Deborah Soifer, a scholar who worked on texts in relation to Narasimha, believes that " the traits basic to Vishnu in the Veda remain central to Vishnu in his avataras " and points out, however, that: " we have virtually no precursors in the Vedic material for the figure of a man-lion, and only one phrase that

Both Vedic Mitra and Avestan Mithra derive from an Indo-Iranian common noun * mitra -, generally reconstructed to have meant " covenant, treaty, agreement, promise.

Due to the nature of Vedic Sanskrit, a term such as Ṛta can be used to indicate numerous things, either directly or indirectly, and both Indian and European scholars have experienced difficulty in arriving at fitting interpretations for Ṛta in all of its various usages in the Vedas, though the underlying sense of " ordered action " remains universally evident.

Atharvan ( ; an n-stem with nominative singular ) was a legendary Vedic sage ( rishi ) of Hinduism who along with Angiras is supposed to have authored (" heard ") the Atharvaveda.

" Attempts have been made to connect the term with Avestan atar-" fire " ( not attested in Vedic ); but these have been prompted by what is probably a mistaken assumption of the importance of fire in the ancient Indo-Iranian religion.

He had many sons and disciples who have also contributed in the compilation of the Rig Veda and other Vedic texts.

" In the ancient texts, Mlechchas are people who are dirty and who have given up the Vedic beliefs.

The Sama Veda, which is believed to have laid the foundation for Indian classical music, consists of hymns from the Rigveda, set to musical tunes which would be sung using three to seven musical notes during Vedic yajnas.

Though historians have tried to trace the origin of Patiala ( as far as the name is concerned ) to Rig Vedic literature, the town as it stands today was founded by Ala Singh with the construction of the Qila Mubarak in 1763.

The Vedic period is held to have ended around 500 BC, Vedic religion gradually metamorphosizing into the various schools of Hinduism, which further evolved into Puranic Hinduism.

Many streams of thought flow from the six Vedic / Hindu schools, Bhakti sects and Tantra Agamic schools into the one ocean of Hinduism, the first of the Dharma religions.

During the course, Maharishi began to introduce additional knowledge regarding the development of human potential, and began writing his translation and commentary on the first six chapters of the ancient Vedic text, the Bhagavad Gita.

Jyotiṣa is one of the Vedanga, the six auxiliary disciplines used to support Vedic rituals.

Vaisheshika or () is one of the six Hindu schools of philosophy ( Vedic systems ) of India.

Sāmkhya is one of the six orthodox systems ( Āstika, those systems that recognize Vedic authority ) of Hindu philosophy.

Krishnamacharya held degrees in all the six Vedic darśanas, or Indian philosophies.

Krishnamacharya eventually left Queens College to study the ṣaḍdarśana ( six darshanas ) in Vedic philosophy at Patna University, in Bihar, a state in eastern India.

In the Paraskara Grhya-sutram ( verse 2. 1. 2 ), the Kambojas, as scholarly people, are classed with the Vasishthas — the cultural heroes of ancient India — and were counted amongst the six great scholarly houses of Vedic India.

Several Indian intellectual traditions were codified during the medieval period into a standard list of six orthodox systems or ‘’ ṣaḍdarśana ’’ s, all of which cite Vedic authority as their source.

Edwin Bryant has received numerous awards and fellowships, published six books and authored a number of articles on Vedic history, yoga, and Krishna-bhakti tradition.

The Smartas found that you can not bring about a unity among different sects or revive the Vedic practices without bringing together the six systems of Philosophy.

He lost his father at the young age of six years, and his maternal uncle M. Lakshmana Suri took over the responsibility for his education, initiating Muthiah into Sanskrit and Vedic studies.

The intense devotionalism of their poetry and insistence that caste and sex are no barrier to a relationship with the Divine is uncharacteristic of classical Vedic thought, which laid a strong emphasis on the performance of the social and religious duties proper to one's place in the social structure.

Let us discharge our prescribed Vedic duties to our elders, ancestors, rishis, creatures, and gods.

In modern Hinduism slaughter according to the rituals permitted in the Vedic scriptures has become less common, though, the world's largest animal sacrifice occurs at Gadhimai, a Hindu festival which takes place every 5 years.

It is rooted in Indoeuropean * d ( e ) y ( e ) w, meaning bright sky or daylight, from which also derived the name of Vedic god Dyaus and the Latin deus, ( god ) and dies ( day, daylight ).

Daena should not be confused with the fundamental principle asha ( Vedic rta ), the equitable law of the universe, which governed the life of the ancient Indo-Iranians.

This Bronze Age civilization collapsed before the end of the second millennium BCE and was followed by the Iron Age Vedic Civilization, which extended over much of the Indo-Gangetic plain and which witnessed the rise of major polities known as the Mahajanapadas.

The Gupta period marked a watershed of Indian culture: the Guptas performed Vedic sacrifices to legitimize their rule, but they also patronized Buddhism, which continued to provide an alternative to Brahmanical orthodoxy.

The idea of a subterranean realm is also mentioned in the Vedic texts such as the Puranas, according to one story in the Puranas there is an ancient city called Shamballa which is located inside the earth, the belief in Shamballa as a city inside the earth is also found in Tibetan Buddhism.

The documented history of Indian religions begins with the historical Vedic religion, the religious practices of the early Indo-Aryans, which were collected and later redacted into the Samhitas ( usually known as the Vedas ), four canonical collections of hymns or mantras composed in archaic Sanskrit.

The period of the composition, redaction and commentary of these texts is known as the Vedic period, which lasted from roughly 2000 to 1500 BCE.

According to Antonia Tripolitis, Roman Mithraism originated in Vedic India and picked up many features of the cultures which it encountered in its westward journey.

It was formed in late 1998 as the political wing of the Maharishi Vedic Vishwa Prashasan ( MVVP ( Maharishi Global Administration Through Natural Law )), which had nominated thirty-four candidates in the February 1998 parliamentary election from Madhya Pradesh.

The Vedic Period also established republics such as Vaishali, which existed as early as the 6th century BCE and persisted in some areas until the 4th century CE.

Even the Gayatri mantra, which is regarded as one of the most sacred of the Vedic hymns is dedicated to Savitr, one of the principal Ādityas.

Some similar ideas appear in the Hindu cosmology which is similar to the Vedic.

* 700 BC – 600 BC: Baudhayana Sulbasutra, an orally transmitted Vedic Sanskrit text on altar construction, contains the earliest extant verbal statement of the Pythagorean theorem, which was likely known to ( but not stated by ) Old Babylonians ( 1800 BC to 1600 BC ).

* 900s BC: India — Vedic India — Yajnavalkya writes the Shatapatha Brahmana, in which he describes the motions of the sun and the moon.

** Vedic period, during which these texts were produced

** the Historical Vedic religion, of which the Vedas record the liturgy

He greeted the youngest of the nations on behalf of " the most ancient order of monks in the world, the Vedic order of sannyasins, a religion which has taught the world both tolerance and universal acceptance.

In Vedic India the same complex appears as a quality of the divine twins, the Nasatya: they allowed a hero to survive in a basin of fire into which he had been thrown and enjoy the bathing as pleasant.