TY  - ADVS
AU  - MICHAEL WOOD narrator
TI  - STORY OF INDIA - Disc 2
PY  - 2007///
KW  - DOCUMENTARY - SERIES
N1  - Rated TV-PG
N2  - Not Rated (2007) In the 6th century AD was the start of India's Golden Age, with the rise of mythical kingdoms, especially Rama's Ayodhya, according to the supreme Hindu epic, the moralistic Ramayana. Aydodhya was later really built as capital of the historical Gupta dynasty's vast, rich, well-organized northern empire, recorded by Chinese visiting monk Fa Hsien. They excelled in metallurgy, astronomy and hedonism. The later southern counterpart was the Chola empire (c900-1300), capital Tanjore. Their Tamil culture, excelling in architecture, dance and bronze, lives on
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