Questions on Ancient India, Gupta Civilization (Vanity)

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Welcome again. A word of advice: I would also email assistant professors and/or people lower down the ladder. Professors the world over are the same- stuffy, self important and sloooow.

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http://www.pantheon.org/areas/ - try this one

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Hindu mythology
by Bernard Doyle

The Hindus have created a rich, complex mythology which is still very much alive. Hundreds of millions of people continue to believe in the multitudes of gods which inhabit the Hindu pantheon. This tapestry of religion is the result of millennia of integration. The Indian sub-continent has been a crossroad for several cultures, and the Indian people have incorporated numerous ideas from different faiths.

Still, one cosmic Truth holds in Hindu thought, and that is that all things are simply a part of a greater, whole One. In early Hindu belief, which still holds true, for nothing in Hinduism is ever discarded, this Universal whole was called Brahmam. All beings and things, from the gods and demons, through humans, on to the lowliest pebble on the beach, were and are part of this One. In later times, the neuter Brahmam became equated with the masculine Brahma, but the original idea is still very much a part of Hindu thought.

go here : http://www.pantheon.org/areas/mythology/asia/hindu/hindu_mythology.html