Definitions of Veda
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(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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synonyms:
Vedic literature
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Samhita
one of four collections of sacred texts
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Brahmana
prose works attached to the Samhitas instructing the bahmins to perform the very elaborate sacrificial rituals
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Aranyaka
a treatise resembling a Brahmana but to be read or expounded by anchorites in the quiet of the forest
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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
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type of:
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religious text, religious writing, sacred text, sacred writing
writing that is venerated for the worship of a deity
Pronunciation
US
/ˈveɪdə/
UK
/ˈveɪdə/
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