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Introduce the four Vedas: Rigveda, Yajurveda, Samaveda, and Atharvaveda. Recite and chant Vedic samhita. Record ancient scholars to create awareness about their Vedic wisdom and its importance in present world. Document manuscripts and books such as Upanishads and Vedangas, in digital format.
Indra is typically featured as a guardian deity on the east side of a Hindu temple. Modern depiction of Indra, Old Kalyan Print. Indra was a prominent deity in the Historical Vedic religion. [32] In Vedic times Indra was described in Rig Veda 6.30.4 as superior to any other god.
Veda (वेद): Vedas are texts without start and end, stated Swami Vivekananda, and they include "the accumulated treasury of spiritual laws discovered by different persons in different times." [ 18 ] Collectively refers to a corpus of ancient Indian religious literature that are considered by adherents of Hinduism to be Śruti (that which ...
The Vedas are classified under śruti. The following list provides a somewhat common set of reconstructed dates for the terminus ante quem of Hindu texts, by title and genre. It is notable that Hinduism largely followed an oral tradition to pass on knowledge, for which there is no record of historical dates. All dates here given ought to be ...
Vritra (Sanskrit: वृत्र, lit. 'enveloper', IAST: Vṛtrá, Sanskrit pronunciation: [ʋr̩.ˈtrɐ]) is a danava in Hinduism.He serves as the personification of drought, and is an adversary of the king of the devas, Indra.
The origin language of these texts is Sanskrit. [14] The Vedas are considered Shruti texts. The Vedas consist of four parts: Rig Veda, Sama Veda, Yajur Veda, and Atharva Veda. [15] Each Veda is subcategorized into Samhitas, Brahmanas, Aranyakas, and Upanishads. [15]
Deities addressed besides Indra and Agni include the Vishvadevas, Pushan, the Asvins, Ushas (Dawn), the Maruts, Dyaus and Prthivi (Heaven and Earth), Savitar, Brhaspati and Soma-Rudra. The rivers mentioned in the sixth Mandala are the Sarasvati , Yavyavati and Hariupiya .
The second Mandala of the Rigveda has 43 hymns, mainly to Agni and Indra chiefly attributed to the Rishi gṛtsamada śaunohotra.It is one of the "family books" (mandalas 2-7), the oldest core of the Rigveda, which were composed in early vedic period (1500-1000 BCE).