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

[rajam]

An eye-opener! Now I’m beginning to understand why some Indologists “see” “chaos and the need for controlling" women and certain groups of people as depicted in Old Tamil literature!

Thanks and regards,
V.S.Rajam


> On Jul 5, 2016, at 11:39 PM, Dr. Debabrata Chakrabarti <dchakra at hotmail.de> wrote:
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> Dear List,
> I am giving here a link of the following topic and hope interested Indologists would like to read it.
> Regards
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> 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.
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> http://scroll.in/article/811150/one-difference-between-indian-and-western-mythology-their-attitude-to-violence <http://scroll.in/article/811150/one-difference-between-indian-and-western-mythology-their-attitude-to-violence>
>  <http://scroll.in/article/811150/one-difference-between-indian-and-western-mythology-their-attitude-to-violence>	
> How Indian sages viewed violence (and why western mythology has such different ideas about it) <http://scroll.in/article/811150/one-difference-between-indian-and-western-mythology-their-attitude-to-violence>
> scroll.in
> 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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