vedic_literature (HyperDic hyper-dictionary)

English > 1 sense of the expression *Vedic literature*:
NOUN	communication	Vedic literature, Veda	(from the Sanskrit word for 'knowledge') any of the most ancient sacred writings of Hinduism written in early Sanskrit

English > *Vedic literature*: 1 sense > noun 1, communication
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.
Synonym	Veda
Category	Hinduism, Hindooism	A body of religious and philosophical beliefs and cultural practices native to India and based on a caste system
Category	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
	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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