CULTURAL HERITAGE

OF INDIA

-BY TUSHAR GOEL

• The culture of India is the way of living of the people of India. India's languages, religions, dance, music, architecture, food, and customs differ from place to place within the country.

• The Indian culture, often labeled as an amalgamation of several cultures, spans across the Indian subcontinent and has been influenced by a history that is several millennia old.

• Many elements of India's diverse cultures, such as Indian religions, yoga and Indian cuisine, have had a profound impact across the world.

Architecture• The Taj Mahal is one of the eight wonders of

the world.

• It was commissioned in 1632 by the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan (reigned 1628–1658) to house the tomb of his favourite wife out of three, Mumtaz Mahal.

Fashion• India is a country with an ancient clothing

design tradition, yet an emerging fashion industry.

• Traditional Indian clothings with regional variations, like sari, ghagra choli or dhoti, remained popular till early decades of post-independence India.

Fitness• Yoga is an Indian physical, mental, and spiritual

practice/discipline.

• Many studies have tried to determine the effectiveness of yoga as a complementary intervention for cancer, schizophrenia, asthma, and heart disease.

• The ultimate goal of Yoga is moksha (liberation) though the exact definition of what form this takes depends on the philosophical or theological system with which it is conjugated.

Literature• The Ramayana is a Sanskrit epic poem ascribed to

the Hindu sage and Sanskrit poet Valmiki.

• It is regarded as one of the two great works of Indian literature.

• The Ramayana consists of 24,000 verses in seven books (kāṇḍas) and 500 cantos (sargas), and tells the story of Rama (an avatar of the Hindu supreme-god Vishnu), whose wife Sita is abducted by Ravana, the king of Lanka (current day Sri Lanka).

• The Mahabharata is one of the two major Sanskrit epics of ancient India, the other being the Ramayana.

• The Mahabharata is the longest known epic poem and has been described as the longest poem ever written. About 1.8 million words in total, the Mahabharata is roughly ten times the length of the Iliad and the Odyssey combined, or about four times the length of the Ramayana.

• The core story of the work is that of a dynastic struggle for the throne of Hastinapura, the kingdom ruled by the Kuru clan. The two collateral branches of the family that participate in the struggle are the Kaurava and the Pandava.

Medicine• Ayurveda or Ayurvedic medicine is a system of traditional

Hindu medicine native to the Indian subcontinent.

• Ayurveda tends to emphasise attaining vitality by building a healthy metabolic system and maintaining good digestion and excretion. Ayurveda also focuses on exercise, yoga, and meditation.

• Ayurveda follows the concept of Dinacharya, which says that natural cycles (waking, sleeping, working, meditation etc.) are important for health and hygiene, including regular bathing, cleaning of teeth, skin care, and eye washing

Mathematics• Aryabhata was the first of the major mathematician-

astronomers from the classical age of Indian mathematics and Indian astronomy.

• Modern names "sine" and "cosine" are mistranscriptions of the words jya and kojya as introduced by Aryabhata.

• The place-value system, first seen in the 3rd-century Bakhshali Manuscript, was clearly in place in his work. While he did not use a symbol for zero, the French mathematician Georges Ifrah argues that knowledge of zero was implicit in Aryabhata's place-value system as a place holder for the powers of ten with null coefficients.

• Kabaddi is a contact sport that originated in Ancient India.

• India is the most successful team on the world stage, having won every world cup and Asian Games title so far, in both men's and women's categories.

Sports

• Kushti (also Pehlwani ) is a traditional Indian form of wrestling . The origin of the martial art, is classified in the time of the 5th century.

• The training takes place on sandy ground. Originally trained with great stone rings, boulders or tree trunks. Today tree trunks for leveling of the square and some strength exercises are still being used.

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