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Veda
Hinduism
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What is a Veda?
What is a Veda?
What are the four Vedas?
What are the four Vedas?
Which Veda is on spells and charms?
Which Veda is on spells and charms?
How have the Vedas been handed down?
How have the Vedas been handed down?
Veda, a collection of poems or hymns composed in archaic Sanskrit by Indo-European-speaking peoples who lived in northwest India during the 2nd millennium bce. No definite date can be ascribed to the composition of the Vedas, but the period of about 1500–1200 bce is acceptable to most scholars. The hymns formed a liturgical body that in part grew up around the soma ritual and sacrifice and were recited or chanted during rituals. They praised a wide pantheon of gods, some of whom personified natural and cosmic phenomena, such as fire (Agni), the Sun (Surya and Savitri), dawn (Ushas, a goddess), ...(100 of 412 words)