Life of a City Dweller in the Gupta Period

How did an affluent city dweller live in the cities of the Gupta period? This video tries to answer this question. Through analysing a chapter of Kamasutra, we discuss the life patter of a Nagaraka.
Reference:-
1. City Life During Gupta Period by Satya Joshi
2. The Complete Kama Sutra The First Unabridged Modern Translation Of The Classic Indian Text By Alain Danielou
3. Kamasutra; Translated by Ramananda Sharma; Published by Krishnadas Akademi Varanasi.
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[@aniruddh732]

I was wondering about this same thing (what was the daily life of ancient indians was) since 2-3 weeks, thanks for covering it

[@AbhashRthr1]

Dynasties before Bimbisar

[@JayVardhanSingh]

I've made a video on it. Do watch. kzbin.info/www/bejne/ani3ZWBvq9-Xjpo&ab_channel=JayVardhanSingh

[@VishnuDixit]

Please do more like this! Knowing how India was during it's richest period feels so beautiful.

[@akshitgaur8581]

Hi sir. I am a student of JNU too, first year. I have been watching your channel for quite some time and would like to meet you if you could put out just a little free time.🙏

[@uday8008]

Please make video on Battle of ten kings mentioned in Vedas there kingdoms and all

[@guharup]

Such an excellent video 👏

[@soljarsinghprakhar496]

Very insightful video bhai.

[@SiddharthaJoshiFilms]

Absolutely fascinating!

[@bhnuc]

Wow. Fascinating video on ancient people. 👍

[@AD-gg2sr]

Can't believe so much details has been given! Truly enlightening! Keep up the good work, and make more such videos on different aspects of social, economic, art and architecture of different periods.

[@ronny383]

Wonderful 👏👏

[@Sidraz8598]

Sir your work is highly appreciable. Thanks for making this channel and sharing your knowledge with great lecture narration..... Hope I ll also get chance to research from jnu in future

[@logkolkata3]

Very informative

[@ABHAY_DEV_ARYA]

Please make more videos on life of people of India and about art and thanks for your efforts ❤

[@simplyhistory1885]

Wow, this is great - the descriptions of how a house should be built and decorated are fascinating. Do you know if there were/are any academic reconstructions for such houses?

[@djsngolossy6237]

This is basically ancient indian south bombay😂

[@anushaiyer2487]

What does that mean ancient south Mumbai

[@Playerone1287]

Vatsayan to kafi cool banda nikla Me to use tharki smjhta tha ab tk

[@subhakantrout8346]

Kamasutra covers a lot more except "Kamalila" . But since the British didn't want everyone to know all the details they translated and spread only the parts which talks about "Kamalila" and how a man should court a woman . And since most Indians were sceptical about "Kama" they straight away avoided "Kamasutra" . Hence the image of the book just stayed the same. Only during the modern age when India became more open towards acceptance of "Kama" That we are getting awestruck by this knowledge. 😅😂😂

[@Playerone1287]

@@subhakantrout8346 chup reh bhai bore ho gye ab hum Sari history hi British logo ne discover ki hai

[@subhakantrout8346]

@@Playerone1287 are kehna kya chahte ho ?! 🙄

[@Playerone1287]

@@subhakantrout8346 chup reh low IQ manav

[@akk7791]

Nice

[@daas207]

Could you enlighten us on Buddhist past of Afghanistan ?

[@prasanth2601]

Would love to see a video on which pan-indian empire ruled (significant portion of) NE States .

[@anonymouslyopinionated656]

no such thing 😅

[@Worldcitizen7777]

​@@anonymouslyopinionated656Gupta Muryan Karkota left the chat

[@parjanyashukla176]

So you are telling us that they were not studying Shakespeare, Milton and Elliot? But they were surely preparing for their CBSE and ICSE board exams after getting coaching from the Vikramaditya Coaching centre (starting from paath 5)?

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[@Varsh413]

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[@ABHAY_DEV_ARYA]

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[@Kalki3710]

Can you make a video about Barbara Cave

[@Archi.x002]

We need more ancient - medieval Indian city life videos. People need to learn facts rather than over idealizing 'good old days' 👍🏻

[@Worldcitizen7777]

Sir i have a question Why people belive horses were brought by Aryans in India between 1900 to 1500 Bc even when paintings of horses and chariots are found in bhimbetka caves which are over 20,000 years old and predates every civilization in history Isn't this another evidence that Aryans were Indians why people still belive in the Aryan invasion theory and belive Aryans brought Horses in India? please make a video on it

[@pinkyfinger9851]

Drawing Room ka description cacij Re juisa he hai

[@liveshkumar7322]

weird how there's no mention of early morning worship or anything religious.

[@kamath234]

Thank you, Now I know were the word "Nagrik" comes from. Nagraka were the upper middle class then? the noble class? Anything about the lower middle class, poor? Thanks again :)

[@djsngolossy6237]

Based on the way Jay vardhan is explaining it, nagarka probably means uppers middle class, nobility and feudal lords probably were referred to as saamantha

[@Playerone1287]

He clearly mentioned in the video that nagraks were affluent city people

[@-rate6326]

​@@djsngolossy6237 bro you doesn't understand English properly he said it in the beginning. It's mean city dwellers.

[@shivansh9813]

what happened to your voice bhaiya

[@Playerone1287]

Are nagrik and nagrak same?

[@gabbar51ngh]

Yes.

[@aryanjaiswal8935]

Did Vatsayayan lived in Guptan India?

[@Serenity1.0_]

Yes

[@kikum3067]

Which capital Gupta 's built?

[@midfielderlounge2592]

They say patliputra it was the biggest city

[@animeshbhatt3383]

So what made you conclude that this kind of lifestyle was restricted to a small elite section? Are you using today's time as a yardstick?

[@abhaypatel4292]

I guess due to fact that literacy itself was luxury at those times

[@MayankSharma-mh5bt]

What are srcs that mentions chanakya? Why magesthenese didn't mention him or did he?

[@vanshbeniwal1662]

The original indica is lost All of the sources we got are from other historians who wrote about things mentioned in indica in his book A lot of things in that aren't mentioned. He might be mentioned in the lost part

[@vanshbeniwal1662]

Other sources are arthshastra,mudra raksha,buddhist texts,Jain texts,hindu texts etc

[@MayankSharma-mh5bt]

@@vanshbeniwal1662 hmm we can speculate that...hopefully someday we may find it somewhere in an old library

[@MayankSharma-mh5bt]

@@vanshbeniwal1662 arthshastra mei life story hai? And mudra rakshshas to shayad contemporary nahi hai na? If you could please mention name of jain and Buddhists sources (contemporary)?

[@vanshbeniwal1662]

​​​@@MayankSharma-mh5bt buddhist text was mahavasma Ha vo bhi late aaya tha Par history mai kai saari ancient chize late he add Kari gyi h Jaise ki Mauryan selucide war bhi late he aayi thi. Or porus bhi jiska jikar sirf Greek source mai se he milta h To ye koi point nahi h. Kyonki kai chize late he added h

[@vaibhavsingh4200]

Caste system and systematic discrimination and inherent nepotism associated with caste system is foundation stone of Hinduism

[@-rate6326]

Dude was teaching about daily life. Patliputra was buddhist

[@sapien2503]

another JNU woke shit.. 🥱🥱

[@antarikshmisra]

Sir there was no such thing like caste system in ancient bharat. Jaati and varna are totally seperate concept than caste. So please use bharatiya words rather than colonial words imposed by British on us.

[@witchilich]

sir stop reading history from facebook posters. everyone understands that jaati means caste.

[@antarikshmisra]

@@witchilich Read rajiv malhotra's book 'Snakes in Ganga'

[@alpha-vs1fx]

​@@witchilichhe's right jaati only roughly translates to caste and is not accurate to equate both words

[@Virtual_Vipra]

Lmao kid it's same 😂

[@AbhinandanABS]

It'll be wrong to judge but He's from JNU. So he might not say that, just like the people replying to you. But in gupta period it was known as Varnā

[@AbcDef-gw4dg]

Guptas were not related to brahminical system. They couldnt read gupta script. They didnt evdn knew harsha era script Britishers decoded the script in 18th century. In which language, script kalidasa wrotr. 😂😂

[@uday8008]

Gupta period have found sculpture of vishnu ji chuitiyeeee

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Aree 5 vi fail Neo Buddhist ye channel tum logo ke liye nahi hai..

[@AbcDef-gw4dg]

@@Rakshita442 There is no such thing like hindu There is only brahmin, kshatriya , vaishya , shudra And there is so much discrimination Nobody marries shudra , why Brahmanism = casteism Brahman ne thopa hua brahmiNism se agar koi chodna chahe ko kha galat hai chodu.