Research Paper
Year: 2020 | Month: February | Volume: 7 | Issue: 2 | Pages: 104-111
A Historical Survey on the Founders, Speakers and Dynastic Traditions of Pashupata Cult
Satendra Kumar Mishra1, Satyarth Prakash Tripathi2
1Assistant Professor, 2Professor,
Amity School of Languages, Amity University, Lucknow Campus, Uttar Pradesh, India-226010
Corresponding Author: Satendra Kumar Mishra
ABSTRACT
Shaivism is highly coordinated with antiquity (mythology). It is not impossible that the creator of Indus-civilization was in a state of uncertainty on the matter of Pashupata cult. It is also not without doubt that in the Vedic Aryan literature, Rudra-Pashupati ideology has been in circulation, but expressing this view would be consistent with the view of historical justice that the existence of Pashupata cult existed in any situation preceding the fifth-eighth century BC. Under the pre-median situation in the sanctum sanctorum of Panini, Patanjali and other evidences, it has been revealed that the phenomenon of Pashupata cult was manifested in the sixth century BC. A side of the religious revolution can be accepted, whereas on the place of Vedic era naturalism and polytheism, the creation of theism based on devotion was being done and on the other hand the importance of policy, conduct and asceticism in place of Vedic rituals and sacrifices was getting importance. A reward of this tremendous environment was Pashupata religion that used to pray for the liberation and peace of the society like other religious systems like Buddhist, Jain, Aajivik and Panchraat.
Keywords: Pashupata, Panini, Existence, Sanctorum
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