{"id":17691,"date":"2017-09-01T19:14:06","date_gmt":"2017-09-02T02:14:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/?p=17691"},"modified":"2017-09-01T19:14:06","modified_gmt":"2017-09-02T02:14:06","slug":"harvard-university-to-have-courses-on-ramayana-and-mahabharata","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/harvard-university-to-have-courses-on-ramayana-and-mahabharata\/","title":{"rendered":"Harvard University to Have Courses on \u2018Ramayana\u2019 and \u2018Mahabharata\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Scene from an animated version of the <strong>Ramayana.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Hindu epics \u2018Mahabharata\u2019 and \u2018Ramayana\u2019 will be taught in the upcoming Fall semester at Harvard University, one of the world\u2019s top and United States\u2019 oldest institution of higher education established in 1636.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>The great Sanskrit Indian epics are focus of the graduate level \u201cIndian Religions Through Their Narrative Literatures: The Epics\u201d class taught by Professor Anne E. Monius of Harvard Divinity School. The class starts Aug. 30.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Ramayana,\u2019 is a narrative poem of about 25,000 <i>shlokas<\/i> beginning in BCE period, is divided into seven <i>khandas<\/i>. \u2018Mahabharata,\u2019 the longest poem ever written, contains around 100,000 verses beginning in BCE period, and is divided into eighteen <i>parvan<\/i> and \u2018Bhagavad Gita\u2019 forms part of it.<\/p>\n<p>Rajan Zed, president of Universal Society of Hinduism, commended Harvard University for highlighting Hindu heritage. He urged major universities of the world; including Oxford, Stanford, Cambridge, Princeton, UC Berkeley, Yale, Columbia, Toronto, Tokyo, Melbourne, etc.; to frequently offer Hinduism -focused classes, thus sharing rich philosophy, concepts, symbols and traditions, of this oldest religion with the rest of the world.<\/p>\n<p>Hinduism is the third largest religion of the world, and has about 1.1 billion adherents and <i>moksh<\/i> (liberation) is its ultimate goal. There are about three million Hindus living in the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>Harvard University, whose motto is <i>Veritas<\/i> (Latin for \u201ctruth\u201d) and which has about 22,000 students, boasts of \u201c48 Nobel Laureates, 32 heads of state, 48 Pulitzer Prize winners.\u201d The Harvard Library, claimed to be the \u201clargest academic library in the world,\u201d includes about 20.4 million volumes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scene from an animated version of the Ramayana. Hindu epics \u2018Mahabharata\u2019 and \u2018Ramayana\u2019 will be taught in the upcoming Fall semester at Harvard University, one of the world\u2019s top and United States\u2019 oldest institution of higher education established in 1636. The great Sanskrit Indian epics are focus of the graduate level \u201cIndian Religions Through Their&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/harvard-university-to-have-courses-on-ramayana-and-mahabharata\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17680,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[275,20],"tags":[82,86,3841,106,3843,3842,147],"class_list":["post-17691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","category-youth","tag-community","tag-education","tag-harvard-university","tag-indian-american","tag-mahabharata","tag-ramayana","tag-siliconeer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17691\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}