The First Spring Part II Culture in the Golden Age of India

Part Two of a brilliant study of ancient Indian civilization. For about a thousand years from around the middle of the first millennium BCE to around the middle of the first millennium CE India was a prosperous and marvellously creative civilization. Cultural cross-fertilization and the stimulus of a Buddhist ethic along with economic prosperity had a liberating effect on the human spirit and on creativity. The season in India then turned spring and culture blossomed luxuriantly. In Part Two of The First Spring (Culture in the Golden Age of India) Abraham Eraly unfolds a profoundly illuminating panorama covering the sciences philosophy literature the arts and religion of an age that flowered luxuriantly before its inevitable decay.