<!--QuoteBegin-Bodhi+Jun 28 2007, 06:49 AM-->QUOTE(Bodhi @ Jun 28 2007, 06:49 AM)<!--QuoteEBegin-->Husky, mahaakavi Sri bhavabhUti's grand work of poetic drama is about the life of Rama. Title is probably dedicated to another most wonderful mahAvIr - 'mahAvIr vikram vajrangI' Sri Hanuman.
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Great poet probably lived in the 7th/8th century.
[right][snapback]70601[/snapback][/right]<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->Thanks Bodhi. That makes it even later! Once again, <b><i>assuming</i></b> the reference to Sita veiling herself occurs in that:
By the 7th/8th century, India had had a much longer association with Persia (N India in any case) for the custom to have steeped so far into everyday N Indian life that the poet could have incorporated that into his book on Hanuman.
Unless such an event occurs in the original Ramayanam or other Pauranic lit on Rama (from memory, I don't think it occurs in Valmiki's), where else but from the poet's imagination and surroundings could he have obtained the veil-incident from? He was obviously writing from how the situation was in his time.
I've updated #257 with an IF internal link I managed to track down on how in 320 bce there were Hindus in the Persian army fighting the Greeks. By that time India obviously already had contact with the Persian empire for Hindus to already be in their ranks. And this contact continued until much much later.
Again, from the material pasted in #252
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->>The Kalibhana grant also tells us that the women of the royal
> household observed purda in Orissa [ 1200, p.70 ] [ In.H.Qu.
> XX (1944) p.242 ]
> Vachaspati tells us that women of good families did not come
> without a veil in public [ Vach. ] [ 1200, p.70 ].<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->(Again, assuming the reds aren't lying for a change) This sounds so very much like the Persian custom, including what the royalty did:
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Achaemenid times Persian queens were hidden from the people.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Anyone know when Vachaspati lived - in fact, does anyone know the dates of all those sources Jha and his sidekick came up with? (Until <i>at least</i> early 4th century bce if not even longer ago, we can trace the custom back to Persia.)
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Great poet probably lived in the 7th/8th century.
[right][snapback]70601[/snapback][/right]<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->Thanks Bodhi. That makes it even later! Once again, <b><i>assuming</i></b> the reference to Sita veiling herself occurs in that:
By the 7th/8th century, India had had a much longer association with Persia (N India in any case) for the custom to have steeped so far into everyday N Indian life that the poet could have incorporated that into his book on Hanuman.
Unless such an event occurs in the original Ramayanam or other Pauranic lit on Rama (from memory, I don't think it occurs in Valmiki's), where else but from the poet's imagination and surroundings could he have obtained the veil-incident from? He was obviously writing from how the situation was in his time.
I've updated #257 with an IF internal link I managed to track down on how in 320 bce there were Hindus in the Persian army fighting the Greeks. By that time India obviously already had contact with the Persian empire for Hindus to already be in their ranks. And this contact continued until much much later.
Again, from the material pasted in #252
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->>The Kalibhana grant also tells us that the women of the royal
> household observed purda in Orissa [ 1200, p.70 ] [ In.H.Qu.
> XX (1944) p.242 ]
> Vachaspati tells us that women of good families did not come
> without a veil in public [ Vach. ] [ 1200, p.70 ].<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->(Again, assuming the reds aren't lying for a change) This sounds so very much like the Persian custom, including what the royalty did:
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Achaemenid times Persian queens were hidden from the people.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Anyone know when Vachaspati lived - in fact, does anyone know the dates of all those sources Jha and his sidekick came up with? (Until <i>at least</i> early 4th century bce if not even longer ago, we can trace the custom back to Persia.)