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| c. 1500 BC |
| | The Aryans bring into India the roots of Hinduism, with the Brahmans as a priestly caste | |
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| c. 1500 BC |
| | Sacrificial hymns of the Aryans, gathered in the Rigveda, become the earliest Sanskrit literature | |
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| c. 600 BC |
| | Hindu hermits live in groups described as ashramas | |
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| c. 550 BC |
| | The Sinhalese, after moving south through India, cross into Sri Lanka | |
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| c. 550 BC |
| | The Indian physician Susruta pioneers plastic surgery of the nose | |
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| c. 550 BC |
| | Indian medical theory maintains that the body consists of three humours - spirit, phlegm and bile | |
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| c. 470 BC |
| | Vardhamana, an Indian prince, leaves home to live as a beggar - at the start of the Jain religion | |
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| c. 430 BC |
| | Siddartha Gautama, a prince in Nepal, leaves home to become a wandering ascetic | |
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| c. 424 BC |
| | Gautama Buddha preaches his first sermon, at Sarnath, setting out the Four Noble Truths and the Eightfold Path | |
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| c. 424 BC |
| | Gautama, after a night of meditation under a pipal tree at Buddh Gaya, is 'enlightened' and becomes the Buddha | |
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