STIMULATING

INDIAN
KNOWLEDGE
SYSTEM, ARTS AND
CULTURE
CULTURAL HERITAGE
 IMPORTANCE OF CULTURAL HERITAGE

INDO – GREECO ROMAN IDEAS BUILT IN 544 A.D

BLEND OF MATHURA AND GANDHARA SCHOOL OF ART
DEPICTED BUDDHIST LANDSCAPE FROM 1ST -13TH CENTURY A.D
 ANCIENT INDIAN CALENDAR
THIS WAS INTRODUCED IN 79 C.E. (SAKA)ADOPTED IN 1957
GREGORIAN CALENDAR 1592 ; INTRODUCED BY POPE GREGORY XIII
 ASHOKA EDICTS

ARAMAIC SCRIPT ----- INDUS SCRIPT -----BRAHMIC SCRIPT -------PRAKRIT

OLDEST SCRIPTS IN INDIA IS BRAHMIC SCRIPT WAS WRITTEN ON THE ASHOKA PILLAR IN SAARNATH IN 260 B.C.
 BRAHMI SCRIPT
WORD LIPI

File:Coins of Agathocles and

Pantaleon used for the decipherment
of the Brahmi script
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 ANCIENT CITY
VARANASI - OLDEST CITY AND IS 5000 YEARS OLD
 UJJAIN
 NALANDA
 RAMESHWARAM
 SHANTI NIKETAN
 CINNAMON
ANCIENT HERBS CUMIN
MEDICINAL AND FOOD : 8TH CENTURY B.C
CLOVE
CARDAMOM
 ORAL TRADITIONS
RIGVEDA COMPOSED IN 3500

 LEGENDS
 FOLK TALES
 PROVERBS
 MUSIC & SONG
 OLDEST ART FORMS OLDEST DANCE FORMS
 2500 B.C. AND 1800 B.C -TERRACOTA BRONZE FIGURES
 BHARATNATYAM ORIGINATED FROM TAMIL
 MITHILA ART ONE OF THE OLDEST
NADU
 MADHUBANI
 WORLI – 2500 B.C FROM THE WESTERN GHATS OF INDIA
 ODISSI – OLDEST SURVIVING INDIAN
 TANJORE
CLASSICAL DANCE STARTED AROUND 2ND
 GOND
CENTURY B.C., PART OF THE NATYA SHASTRA
 KALAMKARI
 CHERIYAL
 KALIGHAT
HISTORICAL MONUMENTS
AJANTA AND ELLORA CAVES
 ANCIENT LANGUAGES

LANGUAGE WRITING SYSTEM

HINDI DEVNAGIRI

ENGLISH LATIN

KASHMIRI SHARDA

PUNJABI GURMUKHI

TAMIL- OLDEST LANGAUGE IN THE WORLD 500 B.C. ABUGIDA/ BRAHMI

SANSKRIT – 3500 B.C. DEVNAGIRI

 SANSKRIT
OUT OF THE SEVEN OLDEST LANGUAGE IN THE WORLD, TWO ARE FROM INDIA SANSKRIT AND TAMIL

SANSKRIT WAS ESENTIALLY AN ORAL LANGUAGE WHEN THE RIGVEDA WAS COMPOSED IN 3500 BC

IT WAS ORIGINATED AS A WRITTEN LANGUAGE IN 1700 1200 BCE

PANNIN CONNECTED TO VEDIC SANSKRIT IN 500 B.C.

TEACH SUBHASHAS /SHOLKAS WHICH ARE ESENTIALLY ARE ONE- TWO LINERS ON LIFE AND LIVING

HELP IN MULTICULTURAL AND MULTILINGUAL RESOURCE

‘UDAR CHARITRA NAAM TU VASUDHAIV KUTUMBAKAM’

TAGORE – NOBLE LAUREATE

 CREATED SHANTI NIKETAN

 TAGORE BELIEFS

 TRUE MODERNISM IS NOT WESTERN ATTIRE

 ROTE SCHOOL STRUCTURE WHERE CHILDREN ARE

INTERNED IT IS :

A) IMAGINATION
B) PURSUIT OF SCIENCE
C) ROOTEDNESS IN CULTURE AND ART
D) NOT UNREASONABLE TRADITIONALISM

 STARTED AN EXPERIMENTAL SCHOOLING IN

SHANTINIKETAN : NATURE, EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING
 MAHATMA GANDHI

 THE GREATEST BRAND AMBASSADORS OF THE WORLD

 CHILDREN SHOULD BE TAUGHT BRANDING IN THROUGH

HISTORY AND NOT INDUSTRY

 BAPU’S ARTEFACTS WERE SOLD FOR MILLION POUNDS

SYMBOLIZING CONNECTING OUR PAST TO THE PRESENT
THE HERITAGE OF A COMMUNITY LOST ACROSS TIME : MATTAN TEMPLE IN
ANANATNAG