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The history of India up to (and including) the times of the Buddha, with his life generally placed into the 6th or 5th century BCE, is a subject of a major scholarly debate. The vast majority of historians in the Western world accept the theory of Aryan Migration with c. 1500-1200 BCE dates for the displacement of Indus civilization by Aryans ...
Indian cultural influence (Greater India) Timeline of Indian history. Chandragupta Maurya overthrew the Nanda Empire and established the first great empire in ancient India, the Maurya Empire. India's Mauryan king Ashoka is widely recognised for his historical acceptance of Buddhism and his attempts to spread nonviolence and peace across
The main imperial or quasi-imperial rulers of North India are fairly clear from this point on, but many local rulers, and the situation in the Deccan and South India has less clear stone inscriptions from early centuries. Main sources of South Indian history is Sangam Literature dated from 300s BCE. Time period of ancient Indian rulers is ...
Ancient Indian mathematician and astronomer Brahmagupta completes the Brāhmasphuṭasiddhānta, a text on mathematical astronomy explaining the role of zero, rules for manipulating both negative and positive numbers, a method for computing square roots, methods of solving linear and quadratic equations, and rules for summing series ...
This category contains the articles related to the kingdoms mentioned in the Indian epic Ramayana. While Mahabharata is the largest source of information on the ancient Indian kingdoms, Ramayana is the second largest source, followed by Puranas and Vedas.
7th - 8th Century Karnataka Daśakumāracarita: Prose Sanskrit: Dandin: 7th - 8th Century Karnataka Avantisundarī: Prose Story of the beautiful lady of Avanti Sanskrit: Dandin: 7th - 8th Century Karnataka Vivekacūḍāmaṇi: Hindu Religion Advaita Vedanta Sanskrit: Adi Shankara: Early 8th Century Kerala Upadeśasāhasri: Hindu Religion ...
Similarly, there were some tribes in the eastern regions of India considered to be in this category. [28] Tribes with non-Vedic culture — especially those of barbaric nature — were collectively termed as Mleccha. Very little was mentioned in the ancient Indian literature about the kingdoms to the North, beyond the Himalayas.
Kosala, sometimes referred to as Uttara Kosala (lit. ' Northern Kosala ') was one of the Mahajanapadas of ancient India. [2] [3] It emerged as a small state during the Late Vedic period [4] [5] and became (along with Magadha) one of the earliest states to transition from a lineage-based society to a monarchy. [6]