Religious importance of Punjab

0000 à 1469 : RELIGIOOUS IMPORTANCE : ‘5 – AAB’ :

PUNJAB : * ANCIENT LAND OF THE FIVE RIVERS:

PUNJAB:

• has been,
• till date
• a witness to
• almost all the major
• ancient world religions.

Hindu religion:

• had its birth here;
• and here also were written
• some of the most ancient
• sacred literature in the world; and

Here also two of the

• great quietist movements
• which had their rise
• in the intolerable nature of the burden laid by the
• Brahmans upon men’s shoulders’

I. Sikhism was born here

• ? developed into a military and
• ? political organization, /and
• ? after a period of decline
• ? now flourishes again
• ? within that province;

II. While, of the followers of Buddha, now represented in the Punjab: only by a few

It was from the Punjab that sprang

• the founder of the Gupta dynasty,
• under whose grandson Asoka
• the Buddhist religion attained,
• Here as elsewhere,
• a supremacy :
• such as it never enjoyed
• either before or
• ever since
• in
• India.

A GLOSSARY OF THE TRIBES AND CASTES OF THE Punjab and North-West Frontier Province
Based on the Census Report for the Punjab, 1883, by the late Sir DENZIL IBBETSON, K.C.S.i., and the Census Report for the Punjab, 1 892, by the Hon. Mr. E. D. MacLAGAN, C.S.i., and complied by H. A. ROSE. pub. By LANGUAGE DEPARTMENT, PUNJAB