What is The Veda
The Vedas are the father of all the scriptures of the world. Other Scripture books are based on the Vedas. The Veda is the biggest text of the Hindus. The Vedas are the names of ancient sacred Hindu texts. The Vedas are the supreme and supreme writings of Hinduism.
Importance of the Veda
It’s the original Veda of the Hindu culture. It is our oldest scripture and the mainstay of Hinduism. The Vedas are of exceptional importance, not only religiously but also historically. This is the only way to learn about the Aryans of the Vedic age’s culture and civilisation. Knowledge of how the human race, especially the Aryan race, developed religion and society in their childhood is known from the Vedas. There is no older book in world literature.
The Vedic language has proved to be much more useful in determining the origin of the Aryan languages. The Vedas are the oldest scriptures of Sanatan Dharma and the oldest books of human civilisation. the word Veda means to know, to know or to know. To believe or not to believe does not mean to believe in the Vedas. That is the path of perceived knowledge of tested experience. It contains the divine sentence.
The Vedas are the oldest written documents of human civilisation. 28,000 Vedas manuscripts are kept at the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute in Pune, India. Of these, 30 manuscripts of Rig Veda are critical and have been included in the UNESCO World Heritage List. UNESCO Rigveda, and so on. E. 1800s It included 30 manuscripts from around 1500 BC as its cultural heritage.
The Vedas are called Shruti, too. Shru means to listen to me. It is said that these mantras were indirectly recited by God Himself, while the ancient ascetics were immersed in deep penance. God first gave the Vedas knowledge to four wise men: Agni, Vayu, Angira and Aditya. The Vedas are unique works of the oral tradition of the Vedic period, which has been going on since the last six to seven thousand BC. Scholars called the combination of Samhita, Brahmana, Aranyaka and Upanishads Vedas. These four parts are Shruti. The Védic code is part of the mantra. The Brahmanic part of the Vedas discusses the Yajnas. This explains the mantras of the Vedas. It describes the constitution and science of Yajna in detail.
The main Brahmanic texts are Aitareya, Taittiriya and Shatapatha. Aranyaka is an important part of the Vedas, too. In Sanskrit, the name of the forest is Aranya. For this reason, the texts that originated in the forest fall under the forest. The five main Aranyakas are Aitareya, Shankhayan, Brihadaranyaka, Taittiriya and Tavalkar.
The Upanishads
The Upanishads are at the top of the Vedas( or Vedanta). It contains profound philosophic and scientific descriptions of God, of creation, and the soul. The number of Upanishads is 1180, but currently, only 108 Upanishads are available.
The primary Upanishads are Ish, Kane, Kath, Prashna, Mundak, Mandukya, Taittariya, Aitareya, Chhandayagya, Brihadaranyaka and Shwetaswer. Numerous branches of the Vedas, Brahmanic texts, Aranyakas and Upanishads have been lost. There are ten Upanishads of Rig Veda, thirty-two of Krishna Yajurveda, sixteen of Samaveda and thirty-one of Atharva Veda. Professor Winternitz considers the period of creation of Vedic literature to be between 2000 and 2500 BC. In a specific period, however, the Vedas were not composed. In other words, it was composed gradually and first of all three parts were compiled and Rig Veda, Sama Veda and Yajurveda were compiled. It’s also called Vedatrayi.
According to Sanatan’s belief, the Vedas’ division took place during the pre-birth sage period of Ram Chandra and Later on, the Atharva sages composed the Atharva Vedas. According to some scholars, after the end of the Dwapar era in Lord Krishna’s time, Maharshi Vedavyas divided the Veda into four parts. He taught these four parts to four disciples, Pail, Vaishampayan, Jamini and Sumantu. In that course, he assigned Rig Veda’s responsibility to Pailai, Yajurveda to Vaishampayan, Sama Veda to Jamini and Atharva Veda to Sumantu.
The F our D ivisions of the Vedas:
Rig Veda, Yajurveda, Sama Veda and Atharva Veda. Rig-position, yaju-transformation, sama-dynamics and Atharva-jad. Rik means religion; Yaju means salvation; Sam means labour, Atharva means meaning. On this basis, Dharmashastra, Arthashastra, Kamashastra and Mokshashastra composed.
Rig Veda:
Rik stands for position and knowledge. It’s got ten mandalas and 1028 richas. In Rig Veda- rik describes prayers, the hymns of the gods and their status in the world of the gods. It has five branches-Shakalpa, Vaskal, Ashvalayana, Shanghai, Mandukayana.
Yajurveda:
Yajurveda Meaning: Yat + Ju = Yaju. Yatka means dynamic, and Ju means heaven. Apart from that, karma. The motivation for the best of deeds. The Yajurveda contains mantras from 1975 and 40 chapters. There are a lot of sacrificial mantras in this Veda. Besides sacrifice, there is a description of philosophy. There are two branches from Yajurveda, Krishna and Shukla.
Samaveda:
Sam stands for transformation and music. Gentleness and adoration. It contains mantras of 1875 (1824). It contains most of the richness of the Rig Veda. All of the mantras in this code are musical, lyrical. It has three main branches, 75 rich and specialises in musicology.
Atharva Veda:
Tharva means vibration; Atharva means vibration. The Atharva Veda’s main purpose is to absorb knowledge in worshipping God while doing the best work. The Atharva Veda consists of 5987 mantras and 20 chapters. It also contains the richest part of the Rig Veda. It includes descriptions of mystical teachings. All of the above are descriptions and hymns of Paramatma, Prakriti and Atma. Apart from this, the Vedas also describe the glory and praise of the great men of their time and the social, political and sect conditions.
Six of the Vedangas
(Six parts of Veda)-
(1) Education,
(2) Verse,
(3) Grammar,
(4) Nirukta,
(5) Astrology and
(6) Kalpa.
Six appendices
(1) Pratipadasutra,
(2) Anupada,
(3) Chhandobhasha,
(4) Dharmashastra,
(5) Nyaya, and
(6) Vaisheshika.
The six texts of the appendix referred to above are available. This is why Shaddarshan is the following: Sankhya, Yagya, Nyaya, Vaisheshika, Mimansha and Vedanta. Similarly, the Veda sub-Vedas are as follows: Ayurveda of Rig Veda, Dhanurveda of Yajurveda, Gandharva Veda of Sama Veda and Sthapatya Veda of Atharva Veda.
The classical form of Védic literature
Currently, there are four Vedas. Its names are-
(1) Rig Veda
(2) Yajurveda
(3) Sama Veda and
(4) Atharva Veda
Before the end of the Dvaparayuga, the four sections of the Vedas were not separate. At that time, the Vedas were a specific study of the three word-styles—Rik, Yajuh, and Sam. There are three types of word-use globally: more famous than verse, prose, and song. The verse has a clear rule of letter-number and foot and punctuation. Therefore, the name of the Veda mantras with a certain number of syllables and the foot and pause is ‘Rik.’
Mantras in which the number of syllables and the foot and punctuation are not observed the rules of the verse are called ‘Yaju:’ prose mantras. The more mantras are lyrical, the more mantras are called ‘Sam.’ It is based on these three types of word-publishing-styles that the word ‘trilogy’ is also used in scripture and folklore for the Vedas.
Listening to and remembering the Gurmukh during the Vedas recitation is of the utmost importance for the protection and success of the Vedas. That’s why the Vedas are also called ‘Shruti.’ hence The diligent practice protects the Veda, hence the name ‘Amnaya.’
At the end of the Dvaparayuga, Shrikrushnadvaipayana Vedavyas Ji divided the four Vedas into four sections to view the use of rituals and taught the four sections to four disciples. The four divisions are Rig Veda, Yajurveda, Sama Veda and Atharva Veda. Pal, Vaishampayan, Jamini and Sumantu-These four disciples taught Shakal to their various disciples. Because of this, those branches are becoming famous after their name.
