Ancient India Test - 5

Digambara is one of the two principal sects of the Indian religion Jainism, whose male ascetics shun all property and wear no clothes. In accordance with their practice of nonviolence, the monks also use a peacock-feather duster to clear their path of insects to avoid trampling them.

Ahimsa is one of the cardinal virtues and an important tenet of Jainism, Hinduism, and Buddhism. Most popularly, Mahatma Gandhi strongly believed in the principle of ahimsa.

Harappa is known to be a 4700 years old city in the subcontinent which was discovered around the time 1920 by Dayaram Sahni. The main weapons of war and hunting used by the Harappans were axe, spear, dagger, bow and arrow, mace, sling, sword, shield and hammer. These tools and weapons of the civilisation were mostly made of copper, tin and bronze.

The characteristic features of the Indus Valley Civilisation are the amenities of a developed city life, unlike Vedic Aryans, who were generally considered rural.
Iron and defensive armour were totally absent in the Indus Valley Civilisation. This distinguished them from Vedic Aryans, who knew about iron and defensive armour.

The horse played an eminent part in Vedic Civilisation, but its early existence is doubted in the Indus Valley.

Indus people worshipped bulls. The Mother-Goddess and Siva were the chief dieties of the Indus Valley. The worship of images was familiar in the Indus valley.