Environmental Ethics & Ecology As Reflected In Ancient Indian Literature

Research Article
Baisakhi Ghosh
DOI: 
http://dx.doi.org/10.24327/ijrsr.2017.0807.0501
Subject: 
science
KeyWords: 
Environment, Vedic texts, Polity literature, Ecology, Ethics, Nature.
Abstract: 

Now a day’s environment is a most discussant topic. The later days of nineteenth century the adverse effects of Industrial Revolution and misuses of technology during the time of Second World War created a huge damage of environment. Though this type of occurrence was absent in ancient India, like any other civilization, till the people of that age had some perceptions and awareness on this particular issue. Hence there was no ancient text composed exclusively for environment but the people of that particular period presented an overview of the society and culture through their various thoughts. This study will explore the different components of nature along with the then people's conception and concern on environmental ethics and perceptions on ecology, which is quite relevant at present and has modern outlook. This study purely stands on few Vedic texts and Polity literatures and also eminent scholars innovative research based articles and several internet links which help to make the study complete. It may be concluded that the modern people presently revolve around the basic concepts of environment through their movements, the idea for which we get from the ancient texts. So it can be said that modern environmental concerns can be addressed by an embryonic form of ancient Indian texts.