What is another word for Vedas?

Pronunciation: [vˈɛdəz] (IPA)

The Vedas are ancient Hindu scriptures that are considered the ultimate source of spiritual knowledge. There are several synonyms for the word Vedas such as Shruti, Santana Dharma, Veda Poshaka, and Veda Mata. Shruti means "that which is heard", indicating that the Vedas were originally transmitted through the sound of chanting. Santana Dharma refers to the eternal principles of righteousness in Hinduism. Veda Poshaka means those who protect the Vedas, and Veda Mata signifies the mother of all knowledge. These synonyms highlight the importance and reverence given to the Vedas in Hindu culture and religion, as they are considered the foundation of spiritual wisdom.

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What are the hypernyms for Vedas?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.
  • Other hypernyms:

    hindu scriptures, sacred texts, Ancient Indian Literature.

Usage examples for Vedas

The religion of the Hindoos is contained in certain books, called Vedas; and, though now involved in superstition, seems to have been originally pure, inculcating the belief of an Eternal Being, possessed of every divine perfection.
"Narrative of a Voyage to India; of a Shipwreck on board the Lady Castlereagh; and a Description of New South Wales"
W. B. Cramp
The Sanskrit itself, in its oldest form, is the Vedaic dialect of the religious hymns called Vedas-of great, but of exaggerated, antiquity.
"The Ethnology of the British Colonies and Dependencies"
Robert Gordon Latham
Fixing these at about 200, B.C.; we allow so many centuries for the archaisms of Menu, and so many more for those of the Vedas.
"The Ethnology of the British Colonies and Dependencies"
Robert Gordon Latham

Famous quotes with Vedas

  • Access to the Vedas is the greatest privilege this century may claim over all previous centuries.
    J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • If only people freed themselves from their beliefs in all kinds of Ormuzds, Brahmas, Sabbaoths, and their incarnation as Krishnas and Christs, from beliefs in Paradises and Hells, in reincarnations and resurrections, from belief in the interference of the Gods in the external affairs of the universe, and above all, if they freed themselves from belief in the infallibility of all the various Vedas, Bibles, Gospels, Tripitakas, Korans, and the like, and also freed themselves from blind belief in a variety of scientific teachings about infinitely small atoms and molecules and in all the infinitely great and infinitely remote worlds, their movements and origin, as well as from faith in the infallibility of the scientific law to which humanity is at present subjected: the historic law, the economic laws, the law of struggle and survival, and so on, — if people only freed themselves from this terrible accumulation of futile exercises of our lower capacities of mind and memory called the "Sciences", and from the innumerable divisions of all sorts of histories, anthropologies, homiletics, bacteriologics, jurisprudences, cosmographies, strategies — their name is legion — and freed themselves from all this harmful, stupefying ballast — the simple law of love, natural to man, accessible to all and solving all questions and perplexities, would of itself become clear and obligatory.
    Leo Tolstoy
  • When I approached God at that time, I hardly had a living faith in Him. The agnostic was in me, the atheist was in me, the sceptic was in me and I was not absolutely sure that there was a God at all. I did not feel His presence. Yet something drew me to the truth of the Vedas, the truth of the Gita, the truth of the Hindu religion. I felt there must be a mighty truth somewhere in this Yoga, a mighty truth in this religion based on the Vedanta.
    Sri Aurobindo
  • Protestants have tried to make their religion completely logical and sensible... The result is that the average Western Protestant, completely cut off from his own myth, turns to the Vedas or theosophy, to Masonry, or to a struggle for power, or even war, to give him mythological symbols which his faith does not encompass.
    Morton Kelsey
  • The essence of the Vedas is a narrative on who the experiencing self is. Ordinary science informs us of the relationships between objects and also their transformations. But the Vedas say that this ordinary science leaves out the self who observes these objects.
    Subhash Kak

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