It is divided into ten books (called mandalas) and has 1028 hymns in praise of various deities.
The most important and oldest of the Vedas. The following is an overview of the four Vedas. The books may be destroyed but the knowledge cannot be destroyed.Īs for the actual written texts, scholars believe that they were written down some 2,500 years ago, though the tradition often dates them to the beginning of Kali-yuga (circa 3000 BCE). The thought already exists as eternal Truth. Hindus believe the Vedas are eternal truths revealed to great rishis of ancient times.The word ‘rishi’ means a ‘seer’ and comes from the root, dris which means to see. The Vedas are Shruti and other scriptures like the Puranas and the epics Mahabharata and Ramayana are Smriti. Shruti, that which is heard or revealed and Smriti, that which is remembered. The word ‘Veda’ comes from the root ‘vid’,to know. Even today Vedas are widely accepted as the final authority on Hinduism and have greatly influenced Jainism, Sikhism and Buddhism. Although Hinduism famously has no founder and is believed to have grown organically from a collective consciousness and a way of life, all Hindu beliefs and practices find their source in the Vedas.
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