Vedas

Hindu texts

Śruti Vedas Rig Veda Sama Veda Yajurveda Atharva Veda Brahmanas Aranyakas Upanishads Smriti Itihasas Mahābhārata Bhagavad Gītā Ramayana Puranas (List) Tantras Sutras (List) Stotras Ashtavakra Gita Gherand Samhita Gita Govinda Hatha Yoga Pradipika This box: view talk edit

The Vedas are the four holiest books of the Hindu religion.

Each book has four major kinds of text – the Samhitas (mantras and benedictions), the Aranyakas (text on rituals, ceremonies, sacrifices and symbolic-sacrifices), the Brahmanas (commentaries on rituals, ceremonies and sacrifices), and the Upanishads (texts discussing meditation, philosophy and spiritual knowledge). The Vedas are written in Vedic Sanskrit.

Later types of Hinduism that are very different from the types of Hinduism that follow the Vedas.

The four Vedas are:

• the Rigveda
• the Yajurveda
• the Samaveda
• the Atharvaveda