Ancient India
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| - | [[India]] has a long tradition of fantastical stories and characters, dating back to [[Vedic mythology]]. Several modern fantasy works such as ''[[RG Veda]]'' draw on the ''[[Rigveda|Rig-Veda]]'' as a source. [[Hindu mythology]] was an evolution of the earlier Vedic mythology and had many more fantastical stories and characters, particularly in the [[Indian epic poetry|Indian epics]], such as the ''[[Mahabharata]]'' by [[Vyasa]], and the ''[[Ramayana]]'' by [[Valmiki]], both of which were influential in Asia. The ''[[Panchatantra]]'' (''Fables of Bidpai'') was influential in Europe and the [[Middle East]]. It used various animal [[fable]]s and magical tales to illustrate the central Indian principles of [[political science]]. Talking animals endowed with human qualities have now become a staple of modern fantasy. | + | |
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| - | The ''[[Baital Pachisi]]'' (''Vikram and the Vampire'') is a collection of various fantasy tales set within a [[frame story]] about an encounter between King [[Vikramāditya]] and a [[Vetala]], an early mythical creature resembling a [[vampire]]. According to [[Richard Francis Burton]] and [[Isabel Burton]], the ''Baital Pachisi'' "is the germ which culminated in the ''[[The Book of One Thousand and One Nights|Arabian Nights]]'', and which inspired the ''[[Golden Ass]]'' of [[Apuleius]], [[Boccacio]]'s ''[[The Decameron|Decamerone]],'' the ''[[Pentamerone]],'' and all that class of [[facetious]] [[fictitious]] literature." ([[Isabel Burton]], preface to [[Richard Francis Burton]] (1870), ''[[Vikram and The Vampire]]''.) | + | |
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Ancient India may refer to:
- The ancient history of the whole Indian subcontinent
- History of South Asia and History of India
- Indus Valley Civilization — during the Bronze Age
- Vedic period — the period of Vedic Sanskrit, spanning the late Bronze Age and the earlier Iron Age
- Mahajanapadas — during the later Iron Age
- Magadha Empire — during classical antiquity (6th to 4th centuries BCE)
- Maurya Empire — the largest ancient Indian empire, contemporary to Hellenism in the west (4th to 2nd centuries BCE), golden age of early Classical Sanskrit literature
- Gupta Empire
- the Kingdoms of Ancient India as described in Sanskrit literature
- Middle kingdoms of India — during late antiquity and the early Middle Ages
- Indo-Greek Kingdom and Kushan Empire (2nd c. BCE to 3rd c. CE)
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