[INDOLOGY] How Indian sages viewed violence (and why western mythology has such different ideas about it)

[Dr. Debabrata Chakrabarti]

Dear List,
I am giving here a link of the following topic and hope interested Indologists would like to read it.
Regards
DC
How Indian sages viewed violence (and why western mythology has such different ideas about it)
In Greek myth, violence is part of a movement from chaos to order. But Indian myth lays out that as long as violence exists, it will beget violence.


http://scroll.in/article/811150/one-difference-between-indian-and-western-mythology-their-attitude-to-violence

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In Greek myth, violence is part of a movement from chaos to order. But Indian myth lays out that as long as violence exists, it will beget violence.








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