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| | The Jakarta Post - India Diaspora |
 | | The Aryans who migrated to the Indian subcontinent around 2,000 years ago ushered in the Vedic era which gave to the land the Rig Veda, and many of the important gods, hymns and rituals of Hinduism, as also abiding social and family systems. |
 | | The spiritual foundations of Indian culture were laid during the later Vedic period (1000-600 BC), when doctrines such as transmigration of the soul, and the search for release from the cycle of rebirth were introduced, and the three other Vedas, Yajur, Sama and Atharva, were composed. |
 | | Apart from being a golden age for literature, arts and architecture, these periods also saw the emergence of the two great Indian epics, the Ramayana and the Mahabharata, in their modern form. |
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