But the usage jars, since in their own cultures the Avesta, Vedas, and Tripitaka are conceived as oral, not written, texts. |
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The Vedas had been slowly expanded to include the massive Brahmanas, the instructions of sacrificial rituals. |
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According to the great dictionary compiler, Hemacandra, Vedanta refers to the purport of the Upanishads and the Brahmana portion of the Vedas. |
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Cotton finds mention in the earliest Sutras but is absent from the Vedas, Brahmanas, Aranyakas. |
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The Vedas are composed in an ancient language of mantra, myth and symbol and utilise a rich poetic and imagistic expression. |
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The Samhitas are the most ancient part of the Vedas, consisting of hymns of praise to God. |
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The Sama Veda differs from other Vedas in that it is chanted with some melody. |
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Shankara was a Vedanta scholar, who had mastered the Vedas and the Upanishads at an early age. |
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Hence to retain reader interest, I first translated only selections from the Vedas, Upanishads and versified them. |
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Therefore those sounds of words of Vedas and Upanishads are very important to Hindus. |
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Upanishads which form part of the Vedas are the real foundations of Hinduism. |
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Mr. Haridas says that there are 12 sutras in the Vedas and the method was first propounded by Swamy Brathi Krishna Theertha. |
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Greeting cards, ideally made by the children, offer Hindu art and wisdom, such as verses from the Vedas. |
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We presented the monistic theology, held by many Hindus and supported by the Vedas and Agamas, that God is the creator of souls. |
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On that Puranas are called the Vedas of the Common folk, for they present the mysteries through myth and legend. |
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Our Vedas, Upanishads, Puranas, Sastras, Agamas, Tantras and Samhitas are all unlimited. |
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The Vedas, Upanishads, Puranas etc., stand eloquent testimony to this remarkable endeavour of our forefathers. |
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There is no connection with the Vedas, and virtually no mathematical usefulness in these aphorisms. |
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It is argued that Aryans brought horses and chariots into the Indian sub-continent and that accounts for their mention in the Vedas. |
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The purpose of the Vedas is to cut down the illusory tree of the material world and attain the real tree of the spiritual world. |
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Along with the Vedas, Upanishads, and the Brahma Sutras, the Gita is adored as the most important scripture of ancient India. |
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According to the Vedas, it is not heredity that determines who is a brahmin, but rather, sattvic character and noble actions. |
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The Rishi speaks in theistic terms, revealing the religious nature of the Vedas. |
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In all four Vedas, there are references to women ascetics reciting Vedic hymns and even creating mantras. |
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Of the four Vedas, the Yajur Veda comprises the primary study, as it contains most of the important mantras required for temple puja and homa. |
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Instead of the hymns of the Vedas to Brahma, embrace the righteous conduct of Dharma, and renounce sinful actions. |
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Can the India of the Vedas and the Puranas make her mother's dream existence comprehensible to Rakhi, unravelling a lifelong puzzle? |
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In Thailand, our Hindu tradition is called Brahmanism, after the Brahmanas, the second book of the Vedas which describe ritual worship. |
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The philosophies of the Vedas, Puranas, Smriti or the six Darshana literatures emphasize on the socio-spiritual reform and promote a spiritual life. |
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The cosmic principle of Rudra as contained in the Vedas is described as Siva in the Puranas. |
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A fundamental message of the film is that we are all connected, just as the Vedas teach that through atman we are all part of the universal soul of Brahman. |
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He was well versed in the study of Vedas, Upanishads and Bhagavad Gita. |
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Little or no reference is made by anyone to the Vedas as the source of Hinduism, or the Upanishads or even the Mahabharata, except for the Bhagavad Gita. |
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The Vedas describe him as the first man who died, blazing the path of mortality down which all humans have since followed. |
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In the future second sub-race the civilization that flourished in millenary India before the Vedas and in ancient China will resurrect. |
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The Upanishads are the last part of the Vedas and form the cornerstone of the philosophy of Vedanta. |
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The Vedas, the indigenous people of Sri Lanka, are fewer than 1,000 in number. |
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That original, that Giver, is called IT or THAT or Brahman in the Vedas and in the Upanishads. |
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Surya is glorified in the Vedas of ancient India as an all-seeing god who observes both good and evil actions. |
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Traditionally, the Vedas have been handed down from one generation to another and many were opposed to recording it in the form of a cassette terming it a commercial venture. |
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Three thousand years ago, you were already producing the Vedas that still illuminate the literature of the world. |
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For instance, the spirit of the Vedas can be continued even in the modern life, though the structure given in ancient times may not be suitable. |
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The systems of Buddhism and Jainism, though they reject the authoritativeness of the Vedas, rely in fact on the shabda of their own scriptures. |
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Knowledge of the Vedas has been condensed into 555 short lines. |
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In this incarnation, Vishnu was able to save mankind and the sacred Vedas from destruction by a terrible flood. |
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Here the word 'Vedas' refers not only to the four Vedas, but also to any inspired sacred text of any tradition. |
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The settlers in Sapta Sindhu composed the Rig Veda, the first of the Vedas, the ancient sacred writings of the Hindu religion. |
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These mantras all come from the Upanishads, representing the four Vedas. |
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Major scriptures include the Vedas and Upanishads, the Bhagavad Gita, and the Agamas. |
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Most Hindu traditions revere a body of religious or sacred literature, the Vedas, although there are exceptions. |
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For the Advaita Vedanta, because no author of the Vedas is mentioned, an unbroken chain of Vedic teachers is quite conceivable, so that the scriptures bear testimony to their own eternality. |
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They can be compared to the mythological asuras in the Vedas whose society was also matrilineal. |
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And Ravana knew the Vedas and Shastras in addition to 64 art forms that have been innovatively depicted in his robe by displaying 64 lotuses. |
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The spiritual source of Hinduism can be found in the Vedas, ancient scriptures written in Sanskrit, the most important of which is the Rig Veda containing a thousand and twenty-eight hymns. |
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As Veda Vyasa discovered the need of a further explanation of the Purusha concept in the Vedas, he has supplemented the Mahabharata with three more chapters which he called Harivamsa. |
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This day is also held sacred to the memory of celebrated rishi Vyasa, arranger of Vedas, and the compiler of Puranas and Mahabharata. |
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The Vedas comprise a vast corpus of Sanskrit poetry, philosophical dialogue, myth, and ritual incantations developed and composed in India by the Aryans over 3,500 years ago. |
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The last part of the Vedas is made up of the Upanishads, whose sublime philosophy is called Vedanta and which have strongly influenced great Western philosophers such as Arthur Schopenhauer. |
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He is a Tamil and Sanskrit scholar with expertise in Vedas, Agamas, Vastu and Shilpa Sastras and honored with the titles of Saiva Acharya Ratna and Veda Agama Vastu Shilpa Vaachaspati. |
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By the time we come to the classical philosophical systems in India, one more assumption is made by almost all Hindu systems, i.e., that all the Vedas together form a coherent whole. |
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Regarded by Hindus as the primary source of knowledge and the sacred foundation of their religion, the Vedas embody one of the world's oldest surviving cultural traditions. |
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The Vedas also offer insight into the history of Hinduism and the early development of several artistic, scientific and philosophical concepts, such as the concept of zero. |
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Mere study of Vedas and praise of them leads man nowhere. |
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Although the Vedas continue to play an important role in contemporary Indian life, only thirteen of the over one thousand Vedic recitation branches have survived. |
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Expressed in the Vedic language, which is derived from classical Sanskrit, the verses of the Vedas were traditionally chanted during sacred rituals and recited daily in Vedic communities. |
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The Vedas call this aspect of Agni as fire of life, Pranaagni. |
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He was proficient in the Vedas and a musician of a high order. |
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The practice of using mantras was adopted from Hinduism, where they were first used in the Vedas. |
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Chinmoy has also published books, essays, spiritual poetry, plays, and commentaries on the Vedas. |
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In the Vedas, swans are said to reside in the summer on Lake Manasarovar and migrate to Indian lakes for the winter. |
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The Vedic culture is described in the texts of Vedas, still sacred to Hindus, which were orally composed in Vedic Sanskrit. |
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Historians have analysed the Vedas to posit a Vedic culture in the Punjab region and the upper Gangetic Plain. |
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The Vedas are believed to have documented a few Tirthankaras and an ascetic order similar to the shramana movement. |
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The Purohit claims the text must be one who is well educated in the Vedas and its six Angas. |
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Ayurvedic medicine is said to have originated from the ancient Hindu sacred texts the Vedas. |
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The oldest written source regarding herbalism and incense is the Indian Vedas, particularly in the Athar-vaveda and the Rigveda. |
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In Tantric tradition, the Agamas refer to authoritative scriptures or the teachings of Shiva to Shakti, while Nigamas refers to the Vedas and the teachings of Shakti to Shiva. |
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By interpreting the teachings enshrined in the Vedas, the epics and the puranas, the torchbearers have kindled the flame of spirituality inherent in Man. |
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The acceptance of the ideas in the Vedas and Upanishads became a central criterium for defining Hinduism, while the heterodox movements rejected those ideas. |
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Hindu modernists like Vivekananda see the Vedas as the laws of the spiritual world, which would still exist even if they were not revealed to the sages. |
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Rig-Veda Samhita is the oldest of the four vedas and consists of 1028 hymns praising the ancient gods. |
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