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Write brief essay on Vedic literature.

  • UPSC 1995
  • Aryans and Vedic Period

Vedic literature is the body of orally composed and orally transmitted Sanskrit texts — the Samhitas, Brahmanas, Aranyakas, and Upanishads — that Hindu tradition classes as shruti, "that which is heard," as opposed to the later, humanly authored smriti corpus. Composed and memorized across roughly a millennium (c. 1500–500 BCE) before ever being written down,…

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  • The Four Samhitas
  • Brahmanas, Aranyakas, and Upanishads
  • The Vedangas: Auxiliary Sciences of Correct Transmission
  • Historical Value and Its Limits

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