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  2. Āśrama (stage) - Wikipedia

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    Āśrama (Sanskrit: आश्रम) is a system of stages of life discussed in Hindu texts of the ancient and medieval eras. [1] The four asramas are: Brahmacharya (student), Gṛhastha (householder), Vanaprastha (forest walker/forest dweller), and Sannyasa (renunciate). [2] The Asrama system is one facet of the Dharma concept in Hinduism. [3]

  3. List of historic Indian texts - Wikipedia

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    1500-800 BCE [1] Shakhas: Vedic school. Each school taught a Veda in a specific way, over time evolving specific styles and emphasis, based on how / by whom / where it was taught. Brahmanas: Commentary and elaboration on vedas and description of religious procedures. 900-500 BCE [2] Upanishads: Philosophy in response to Vedas and Brahmanas.

  4. Vedas - Wikipedia

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    The oldest part of the Rig Veda Samhita was orally composed in north-western India between c. 1500 and 1200 BCE, [note 1] while book 10 of the Rig Veda, and the other Samhitas were composed between 1200 and 900 BCE more eastward, between the Yamuna and the Ganges rivers, the heartland of Aryavarta and the Kuru Kingdom (c. 1200 – c. 900 BCE).

  5. Vānaprastha - Wikipedia

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    The earliest mention of a related concept in Rig Veda is of Antigriha (अन्तिगृह, like a neighbor) in hymn 10.95.4, where the context and content suggests the elders did not go into forest, but continued to live as part of extended family, with outwardly role, in ancient India. [14]

  6. Shankaracharya - Wikipedia

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    Veda Sampradaya Present Shankaracharya Padmapāda: East Puri Govardhanmaṭha Pīṭhaṃ: Prajñānam brahma (Consciousness is Brahman) Rig Veda: Bhogavala Swami Nischalananda Saraswati: Sureśvara: South Sringeri Śārada Pīṭhaṃ: Aham brahmāsmi (I am Brahman) Yajur Veda: Bhurivala Sri Bharati Tirtha: Hastāmalakācārya: West Dvāraka ...

  7. Sannyasa - Wikipedia

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    Adi Shankara, founder of Advaita Vedanta, with disciples, by Raja Ravi Varma (1904). Sannyasa (Sanskrit: संन्यास, romanized: saṃnyāsa), sometimes spelled sanyasa, is the fourth stage within the Hindu system of four life stages known as ashramas, the first three being brahmacharya (celibate student), grihastha (householder) and vanaprastha (forest dweller, retired). [1]

  8. List of Hindu texts - Wikipedia

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    Veda (वेद): Vedas are texts without start and end, stated Swami Vivekananda, and they include "the accumulated treasury of spiritual laws discovered by different persons in different times." [ 18 ] Collectively refers to a corpus of ancient Indian religious literature that are considered by adherents of Hinduism to be Śruti (that which ...

  9. Brahmanical System of Education - Wikipedia

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    Brahmanical System of Education was an ancient system of education in ancient India.It was based on Vedic tradition. [1] The main objective of the educational system was to make the students self-reliant.