Meaning | (from the Sanskrit word for 'knowledge') any of the most ancient sacred writings of Hinduism written in early Sanskrit; traditionally believed to comprise the Samhitas, the Brahmanas, the Aranyakas, and the Upanishads. |
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Synonym | Vedic literature |
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Category | Hinduism, Hindooism | A body of religious and philosophical beliefs and cultural practices native to India and based on a caste system |
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Sanskrit, Sanskritic language | (Hinduism) an ancient language of India (the language of the Vedas and of Hinduism) |
Instances | Aranyaka | A treatise resembling a Brahmana but to be read or expounded by anchorites in the quiet of the forest / forest |
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Brahmana | prose works attached to the Samhitas instructing the bahmins to perform the very elaborate sacrificial rituals |
Samhita | One of four collections of sacred texts |
Vedanga | Vedic texts from the fifth and fourth centuries BC dealing with phonetics and ritual injunctions and linguistics and grammar and etymology and lexicography and prosody and astronomy and astrology |
Broader | sacred text, sacred writing, religious writing, religious text | writing that is venerated for the worship of a deity |
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Adjectives | Vedic | of or relating to the Vedas or to the ancient Sanskrit in which they were written |
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Nouns | Vedist | a scholar of or an authority on the Vedas |
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