a
collective term for the oldest scriptures of
Hinduism;
religious hymns which are about the earliest known material or
knowledge here on Earth in the
form of
data. There is somewhere between-and I think it would be adventurous to
state an exact number-but there's somewhere between 125 thousand and 150 thousand books which have been written and which
comprise the Veda and
Buddhist libraries.
one of the oldest scriptures of
Hinduism; a
religious hymn which is about the earliest known material or
knowledge here on Earth in the
form of
data.
the
collective designation of the ancient
sacred literature of
India or of the
individual books belonging to that literature. The principle examples of this
voluminous religious collection, the whole of which comprises more than one hundred books, are the
Rig-Veda, the Yajur-Veda, the Sama-Veda and the Atharva-Veda. See also
Rig-Veda, Yajur-Veda, Sama-Veda and Atharva-Veda in this glossary.
the most ancient
sacred writings of the
Hindus.