Hindu Texts Upanishads epics Puranas Mahabarata

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Hindu TextsUpanishadsepicsPuranasMahabara
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• Thy Name is beautiful, and very beautiful is Thy
  love, Oh my Omnipresent Lord.
• As rain is dear to the earth , as the fragrance
  of flowers is dear to the black bee, and as the
  mango is dear to the cuckoo, so is the Lord to my
  soul.
• As the sun is dear to the sheldrake, and as the
  lake of Man Sarowar to the swan, and as the
  husband is dear to the wife, so is God to my
  soul.
• As milk is dear to the baby and as the torrent of
  rain to the mouth of the sparrow-hawk who drinks
  nothing but raindrops, and as water is dear to
  the fish, so is the Lord to my soul.
• 
  -Bhakta Nam Dev

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Hindu Time Line

• c. 400 200BCE
• the Ramayana and the Mahabaret, containing the
  Bhagavad Gita
• c. 300 CE the Tantras are writen down (they are
  as old as the Upanishads)
• c. 600 1800 CE Bhakti Flourishes

• c. 2000 BCE
• Aryan Invasion
• c. 1500 BCE early vedas are first writen down
• C. 600 400 BCE Upanishads recorded
• 500 BCE Bhakti emerges as a religious movement

(Fisher, 83.)
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Bhakti

• - The path of devotion.

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Brihadesvara / Rajarajeshvara
Temple
c. 1003 1010
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Ganesh
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12th century C.E.
Rajaraja Chola Museum, Royal Palace
9th to 10th century C.E.
13th century C.E.
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Gajendra -the lord of the
elephants c. 10th 12th
century
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Siva Nataraja, 11th c. From Southern
India.Location Musee des Arts
Asiatiques-Guimet, Paris, France Photo Credit
Giraudon / Art Resource, NY   Image Reference
ART7045
Siva Nataraja. Ringed by a circle of flames Siva
dances on the back of the prostrate dwarf
Apasmara. From Madras. Chola dynasty, 11th c.
Bronze, H 89 cm.Location Victoria and Albert
Museum, London, Great Britain Photo Credit
Victoria Albert Museum, London / Art Resource,
NY   Image Reference ART51337
13th century CE Siva Nataraja. Bronze statue.
Chola dynasty, 13th c.Location Government
Museum and National Art Gallery, Madura, Tamil
Nadu, India Photo Credit Borromeo / Art
Resource, NY   Image Reference ART1383
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Stockstad, Marilyn. Art History. Vol. 1, 2cnbd
Ed.. Harry N. Adams, Inc. New Jersey2002.
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Fisher, Mary Pat. Living Religions. 5th ed.
Printice-Hall Inc.. New Jersey2002. (pgs.
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http//www.hindunet.org/god/Gods/ganesh/