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Hinduism
Sanatana Dharma; the eternal way
c.1500 BCE (Vedic roots) – present · Dharmic / Indian · Living · India, Nepal, Bali, Mauritius, worldwide diaspora
III. THE AXIAL AGE — c.900 – 200 BCE
### How many
### Who began it
### What it is for
### What it worships
### What it holds
### What it does
### After death
### Its texts
### Its branches
### Of note
### Its timeline
- c.1500–1200 BCE Rigveda composed.
- c.800–500 BCE Upanishads. Karma, samsara, atman and moksha enter the tradition; the ritual system is reinterpreted as interior.
- c.500–200 BCE The six orthodox darshanas take shape: Nyaya, Vaisheshika, Samkhya, Yoga, Mimamsa, Vedanta.
- c.400 BCE–400 CE Mahabharata and Ramayana assembled; the Bhagavad Gita reframes duty, devotion and action for the non-renouncer.
- c.320–550 CE Gupta period. Temple Hinduism, Puranas and the great sectarian traditions of Vishnu and Shiva flourish.
- c.500–1600 CE The bhakti movement spreads across India in vernacular languages — Alvars, Nayanars, Kabir, Mirabai, Tulsidas, Chaitanya — and repeatedly challenges caste and priestly monopoly.
- 788–820 CE Adi Shankara systematises Advaita Vedanta and founds four monastic seats.
- 1017–1137 CE Ramanuja argues qualified non-dualism against Shankara.
- 1828 CE Ram Mohan Roy founds the Brahmo Samaj; the reform era begins, targeting sati, child marriage and caste.
- 1893 Vivekananda addresses the World's Parliament of Religions in Chicago and introduces Vedanta to the West.
- 1947 Partition of India; mass communal violence and population transfer.
- 1980s–present Rise of Hindutva as a political ideology, which many Hindu scholars distinguish sharply from Hinduism as a religion.
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