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, ...

The Ramayana, one of the two major Hindu epics, was composed by Rishi Valmiki. Various scholars have tried to find out whether there are any references to the Ramayana story or its characters before ...

In his Thirumandiram, Thirumoolar talks of the greatness of the Vedas, said R. Narayanan in a discourse. Thirumoolar says some talk of righteous things, not mentioned in the Vedas. But, according to ...

Hindus believe that the Vedas texts were received by scholars direct from God and passed on to the next generations by word of mouth. These are the most ancient religious texts which define truth for ...

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 ...

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 ...

There are few ideas in Indian spiritual thought that are as widely repeated and yet as deeply misunderstood as the idea of ...

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 ...

Recently, a very senior gentleman argued that Europeans stole science from the Vedas. He kept quoting verses from Vedas to prove how everything from gravity to Newtonian physics can be traced to the ...