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  2. Religion in the Punjab - Wikipedia

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    The historical Vedic religion constituted the religious ideas and practices in the Punjab during the Vedic period (1500–500 BCE), centered primarily in the worship of Indra. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] [ 8 ] [ note 1 ] The bulk of the Rigveda was composed in the Punjab region between circa 1500 and 1200 BC, [ 9 ] while later Vedic scriptures were composed ...

  3. Punjabi Hindus - Wikipedia

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    Hinduism is the oldest recorded religion practiced by the Punjabi people. [17] The historical Vedic religion of the Vedic period (1500–500 BCE) constituted the religious ideas and practices in Punjab, and centred primarily in the worship of Indra, the Hindu god of heaven and lightning. [18]

  4. University of ancient Taxila - Wikipedia

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    The university of ancient Taxila (ISO: Takṣaśilā Viśvavidyālaya) was a center of the Gurukula system of Brahmanical education in Taxila, Gandhara, in present-day Punjab, Pakistan, near the bank of the Indus River. It was established as a centre of education in religious and secular topics.

  5. Historical Vedic religion - Wikipedia

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    The historical Vedic religion, also called Vedicism or Vedism, and sometimes ancient Hinduism or Vedic Hinduism, [a] constituted the religious ideas and practices prevalent amongst some of the Indo-Aryan peoples of the northwest Indian subcontinent (Punjab and the western Ganges plain) during the Vedic period (c. 1500–500 BCE).

  6. Government Islamia College - Wikipedia

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    Government Islamia College Civil Lines (Urdu: اسلامیہ کالج), formerly called Dayanand Anglo Vedic College, is a government college in Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan. Founded by Arya Samaj as the school of Dayanand Anglo Vedic on 1 June 1886, [1] It was later renamed Dayanand Anglo Vedic (DAV) College after Hindu leader Dayananda Saraswati. [1]

  7. Punjabis - Wikipedia

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    The historical Vedic religion constituted the religious ideas and practices in the Punjab during the Vedic period (1500–500 BCE), centered primarily in the worship of Indra. [ 72 ] [ 73 ] [ 74 ] [ note 1 ] The bulk of the Rigveda was composed in the Punjab region between circa 1500 and 1200 BC, [ 75 ] while later Vedic scriptures were ...

  8. Vedic period - Wikipedia

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    The Vedic period, or the Vedic age (c. 1500 – c. 500 BCE), is the period in the late Bronze Age and early Iron Age of the history of India when the Vedic literature, including the Vedas (c. 1500 –900 BCE), was composed in the northern Indian subcontinent, between the end of the urban Indus Valley Civilisation and a second urbanisation, which began in the central Indo-Gangetic Plain c. 600 BCE.

  9. Hinduism in Punjab, Pakistan - Wikipedia

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    Hinduism is the oldest recorded religion practiced by the Punjabi people. [18] The Rig Veda, the oldest and most sacred Hindu text, is believed to have been composed in the Punjab region of modern-day Pakistan (and India) on the banks of the Indus River around 1500 BCE. [19]