[FairfieldLife] Re: Vaj... how do you define Vedic culture?

2009-07-13 Thread WillyTex
Vaj wrote: The aberration coined Sthapatya-veda is actually a recasting of indigenous Shaivite vastu and later re-appropriated indigenous building traditions. There is no evidence for any indigenous Shaivite vastu or any edifice architecture in India before the Buddhist period, before the

[FairfieldLife] Re: Vaj... how do you define Vedic culture?

2009-07-12 Thread TurquoiseB
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[FairfieldLife] Re: Vaj... how do you define Vedic culture?

2009-07-12 Thread WillyTex
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[FairfieldLife] Re: Vaj... how do you define Vedic culture?

2009-07-12 Thread WillyTex
off wrote: Vaj... how do you define Vedic culture? Vedic culture is that culture that composed the Vedas? 1. What are its 10 main gods/deities? Indra, Agni, Soma, Varuna, Aryaman, Surya, Vayu, Prithivi, Ushas, Aditi and Saraswati. And who are those three hundred and three, and three thousand

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Vaj... how do you define Vedic culture?

2009-07-12 Thread Vaj
Good answers Willy! Comments interwoven. On Jul 12, 2009, at 10:21 AM, WillyTex wrote: 4. What, if any, defines its architecture? Give examples. The Vedic culture was agrarian in nature and pastoral, charactrerized by the herding of cattle. They lived in small villages along rivers such as

[FairfieldLife] Re: Vaj... how do you define Vedic culture?

2009-07-12 Thread off_world_beings
Thanks for the answers. I will get back to you on this soon. OffWorld --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com , WillyTex no_re...@... wrote: off wrote: Vaj... how do you define Vedic culture? Vedic culture is that culture that composed the Vedas? 1.