Gupta Empire Timeline

Music and Dance developed complex formed the basis of classical India music and dance.Lyre(also named as Veena ) shape like a harp, was a musical instrument that were used the Gupta Empire period.

Gupta Empire Timeline

Samudragupta's reign ends

Culture

Gupta Empire Established

Hinduism

• Hinduism had no central authority or large-scale organization, yet it bound the people of India together with a set of strongly held common beliefs.

• Hinduism embraces a multitude of religious beliefs and practices because they believed all reality was part of one vast whole and the whole being unknowable, with all the divers human needs and desires, Hindus had a large number of deities though whom they could approach the divine.

Samudragupta ruled for fifty years. He ruled five times the years as his father. He died in 380 AD.His son ,Chandragupta II,

succeeded him.

The Gupta empire was established in 320 AD.

They existed about the same time as the Roman

empire.

The founder of the empire was Chandragupta 1.

• Shiva was a god of great contradictions. As the god of death and time. He was also the universal teacher.

• His power. His dancing enabled him to be the lord of beats and the lord of dance.

• Parvati was only one of many names used for the wife of Shiva. Some of her names were: Devi, Mahadevi, Uma Kali and Durga. As Pavarti and Uma she was young, beautiful, sweet and motherly. As Kali and Durga she was fierce and fearsome and sometimes hideously ugly. In whatever form she was the third greates deity of Hinduism.

• To his worshipers, Vishnu was the source of everything that is. As he slept on a thousand-headed cobra in the ocean that existed at the beginning of time, a lotus grew from his navel. From the lotus was born the god Brahma, who created the world. Vishnu then awoke and went to rule in the highest heaven.

• The companionate Vishnu was the preserver of creation. He worked constantly for the good of the world. This is why he “took on flesh” nine times when the world was in great danger of being destroyed.

• His wife Lakshmi the goddess of good fortune, usually “took on flesh” with him.

575 AD

320 AD

330 AD

380 AD

Buddhism

Art

Chandragupta's reign ends

>temples made of brick or stone

>many indian and buddha statues

>used bright colours and had spiritual theme

>covered natural, religious, spiritual and social values

>made everything very elaborate to show off talent

>wanted art to have deep meaning for men

>number of buddha statues stood out

>cut in many carvings into caves

• Its founder was Siddhartha Gautama. Who was born a prince and raised in luxury shielded from all the troubles of the world.

• Siddhartha Gautama one day saw a very old man, he then realized everyone will one day be old and weak. Then he saw a very sick old man and later a corps being carried to the cremation ground. He was very distressed so when he met a group of five ascetics he left with them for six years in search of the world’s problems.

• He found he was no closer to enlightenment. So he sat under a pipal tree and vowed to stay there until he understood the causes and cures of human suffering.

• He became the Buddha “the enlightened one” after 14 weeks of meditation. Then he set out to teach everyone what he had learned.

• The Buddha travelled from place to place preaching sermons, founding communities of monks and nuns and teaching people of all social classes so they could live better lives.

• The Buddha’s teaching began with the four nobles truths: that all existence is sorrow, that this sorrow arises from desire or craving, that the sorrow will cease when personal desire ceases.

• The duties of the Buddhist was inquired of not to injure living things, not to steal, not to “act evilly in passion,” not to lie, and not to use alcohol or drugs because they tended to cloud the mind.

• Some of the most important and very popular people in Buddhism where called bodhisattvas.

• Bodhisattvas were beings who had attained enlightenment but, because of their great compassion, had decided to not enter nirvana but instead they remained in a state which they could help others along the road towards enlightenment.

• The most important bodhisattva was Avalokiteshvara who was so compationate that his helping hand reached even to the deepest purgatory, and in-between state after death, where souls were purified through suffering.

Chandragupta reigned for ten years. Chandragupta died in 335 AD.His son, Samudragupta, succeeded him. He was pictured as a muscular warrior, a poet, and a musician. He was what the indians of the Gupta empire saw as a hero.