Vedas means knowledge in sanskrit, I get it from Google baba. Vedas are consist of four religious text books, which are written in vedic sanskrit. These are the oldest scriptures of Hinduism. Saga vyasa wrote vedas in 500 BCE.
THE RIG VEDA
The rig veda is a collection of over a thousand hymns known as suktas and well above ten thousand verses which have been created into ten mandalas or books.
The rig veda is a amalgamation of four major components. Samhitas, Brahmanas, Aryankas and The Upanishads.
Rig veda talk about the issues of morality and the right societal behaviour. It tackles important issues of the time like gambling and the right measure for hood governance.
THE SAMA VEDA
the Sama veda shares this divine status, and therefore a place of Honor in the Hindu tradition. Although the sama veda is often considered the third Veda after the Rig and yajur Vedas, in the Bhagavad , one of the great epics of the Hindu tradition, Krsna describes the Sama Veda as the most important of the Vedas .
THE YAJUR VEDA
The Yajurveda Samhita consists of archaic prose mantras and also in part of verses borrowed and adapted from the Rigveda. Its purpose was practical, in that, each mantra must accompany an action in sacrifice but, unlike the Samaveda, it compilation apply to all sacrificial rites.. There are two major groups of recensions of this Veda, known as the “Black” (Krishna) and “White” (Shukla). Yajurveda (Krishna and Shukla Yajurveda respectively). While White Yajurveda separates the Samhita from its Brahmana (the Shatapatha Brahman), the Black Yajurveda intersperses the Samhita with Brahmana commentary.
THE ATHARAVA VEDA
The Atharvaveda has some special features because of which it stands a little apart from the other three Vedas, especially the Rigveda Major portion of this Veda is concerned with the following :
- Diseases and their cure
- Rites for prolonging life
- Rites for fulfilling one’s desires
- Building construction
- Trade and commerce
- Statecraft
- Penances
- Propitiatory rites
- Black-magic
One by one we will go in each veda in detail in the next matter.
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