Wiki Trails: From Yoga to Awadhi

Statue of Shiva, Wikipedia

After reading another classmate's story site, I decided to check out the page on Yoga, because it has similar origins as these epics we're reading.

In the etymology section of this article, I was curious about this link titled Epic Sanskrit and got really excited. This took me to the interesting article on Indian Epic Poetry.  Here, I learned all about the Indian Epics, some of the ones we're reading for class were discussed here, as well.

From here, I found interest in Hindi.  I decided to read this article because I really don't have a strong background of knowledge in non-western religions.  I really loved learning more about this rich culture and found interest in a link called Awadhi language.  It always comes back to language for me and I really enjoyed learning more about this fascinating language and I'm definitely bookmarking it and coming back to read more later.

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