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Vedic literature

DEFINITIONS OF: Vedic literature

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n (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

Synonyms:
Veda
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Samhita
one of four collections of sacred texts
Brahmana
prose works attached to the Samhitas instructing the bahmins to perform the very elaborate sacrificial rituals
Aranyaka
a treatise resembling a Brahmana but to be read or expounded by anchorites in the quiet of the forest
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
Type of:
religious text, religious writing, sacred text, sacred writing
writing that is venerated for the worship of a deity
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