"The sages are seers of the mantras, not their creators." It reinforces the Apauruṣeya nature of the Vedas, emphasizing that ...

The Vedas are considered the supreme. People revere the Vedas with the highest esteem. There is no work greater than Vedas. All the scriptures, Puranas and Ithihasas are appendices of the Vedas, ...

BANGALORE: The Vedas consist of the four samhitas — Rig, Yajur, Atharva and Sama, the six supplements, the 108 Upanishads, the 18 Puranas and the two itihasas — Ramayana and Mahabharata. The entire ...

Vedas and Upanishads are often used interchangeably and this gives an impression that these are twin words, which means they might have the same meaning. However, the fact that Vedas and Upanishads ...

The origin of Vedas cannot be traced. They have been in existence from time immemorial. In Tamil, the Vedas are called “seyyamozhi” — denoting that it is not authored by anyone. The Vedas tell us the ...

Conch-shells are conspicuous by their absence in the Veda. They are not found in the Ramayana either. But they appear in Mahabharata, used by Krishna and the Pandava brothers, in battle. The ...

The Ramayana, one of the two major Hindu epics, was composed by Rishi Valmiki. Various scholars have tried to find out ...

The word ‘Veda’ means knowledge. The real source of all knowledge is God. With their one-pointed minds, the rishis (seers) ‘saw’ or ‘heard’ truths that emanated from God as name and form. They in turn ...

The Vedas, meaning "knowledge" in Sanskrit, are ancient texts that form the foundation of Hinduism. Composed in Vedic Sanskrit between 1500 and 500 BCE, these texts are the oldest in Hinduism and were ...