Story Of Bali, Indonesia

But it is not only that religion and art are closely interwoven with one another; the religious outlook determines the social structure, which finds in it its origin, purpose and sacral confirmation. Consequently art has a strong social flavour.

Before we examine more closely the evolution of Indonesian art, and how it was influence from India, we have first to take a look at the most important characteristic of Indian culture.

At the beginning of the Christian era, when the first rays of Indian culture started to fall upon Indonesia, India already had a cultural evolution of many centuries behind her. It received a strong impetus when the Aryans came from Iran about 1500 B.C., occupied the fertile Punjab, and in the course of their prolonged migrations traversed and populated the whole of northern India. The oldest written texts which manifest this cultural influence are the vedas (vedi = knowledge). At first these texts, which were held to be 'revealed', were handed down orally.

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