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SAI INTERNATIONAL RESIDENTIAL SCHOOL
SUBJECT HISTORY
CLASS VI (2020-21)
CH- 11 BUILDINGS, PAINTINGS AND BOOKS
LESSON NOTE

THE WORLD OF • Epics are grand, long compositions, about heroic men
BOOKS and women, and include stories about gods.
• Some of the famous epics written during this period are:
• The Tamil epic silappadikaram was composed 1800
years ago by a poet Ilango.
• Manimekalai, another Tamil epic, was composed by
Sattanar 1400 years ago.
Meghduta was written by Kalidasa in Sanskrit.
RECORDING AND • Valmiki was the author of Ramayana.
PRESERVING OLD • Puranas contained old Hindu religious stories about
STORIES gods and goddesses which were written in simple
Sanskrit and were meant to be heard by everybody.
• Mahabharata and Puranas were compiled by Vyasa.
• Mahabharata also includes the Bhagavada Gita.

STORIES TOLD BY • The stories of ordinary people were collected in the form
ORDINARY of Jatakas and the Panchatantra.
PEOPLE • The story of monkey king.

WRITING BOOKS • Aryabhata wrote a book called Aryabhatiyam in Sanskrit.
ON SCIENCE He put forward scientific theories for the cause of day
and night and eclipses.
• A way of calculating the circumference of a circle.