Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Any of the oldest and most authoritative Hindu sacred texts, composed in Sanskrit and gathered into four collections.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The sacred scripture of the ancient Hindus, written in an older form or dialect of Sanskrit. It is divided into mantra, or sacred utterance (chiefly metrical), brāhmana, or inspired exposition, and sū tra, or sacrificial rules. It is also divided into four bodies of writings: Rig-Veda or hymns, SāmaVeda or chants, Yajur-Veda or sacred formulas, and Atharva-Veda, a collection of later and more superstitious hymns—each with its brāhmanas and sū tras. It is of unknown and very uncertain chronology, the oldest of the hymns being possibly from near 2000 b. c. Sometimes abbreviated Ved.
Wiktionary
- n. Hinduism A large body of texts originating in Ancient India. They form the oldest layer of Sanskrit literature and the oldest sacred texts of Hinduism.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The ancient sacred literature of the Hindus; also, one of the four collections, called Rig-Veda, Yajur-Veda, Sama-Veda, and Atharva-Veda, constituting the most ancient portions of that literature.
WordNet 3.0
- n. (from the Sanskrit word for `knowledge') any of the most ancient sacred writings of Hinduism written in early Sanskrit; traditionally believed to comprise the Samhitas, the Brahmanas, the Aranyakas, and the Upanishads
Etymologies
- From Sanskrit वेद (veda, "knowledge"). Compare to Swedish veta (to know), Dutch: weten, Low German: witten, wetten, waiten (Gronings) and German: wissen. (Wiktionary)
- Sanskrit vedaḥ, sacred lore, knowledge, Veda; see weid- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Atharva Veda Veda cha implies that the Atharvans were not generally included under the term Veda by which the first three Vedas only were meant.”
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18
“The English word video comes from the word Veda, which means, “to see and realize the truth.””
“We are the keepers and carriers of a library of knowledge, which is called the Veda, or Vedas.”
“The first half of the story (when Captain Veda was driven by revenge and when there were lots of plot twists) was better paced than the second half (the time skips were much larger and the revenge took a back seat to the new galactic threat), but even so, it still doesn't get much better than this.”
“Modern Hindus when not influenced by the language of European scholars apply the word Veda especially to the Upanishads.”
“The Sastra is constituted by the aggregate of words called Veda, which is handed on by an endless unbroken succession of pupils learning from qualified teachers, and raised above all suspicion of imperfections such as spring from mistake and the like.”
The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Ramanuja — Sacred Books of the East, Volume 48
“The word Veda, however, should be taken, as a collective name for the sacred literature of the”
Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities
“In the film, Ann Blyth plays the daughter (wonderfully) as a spoiled brat, but the novel’s Veda is a hundred times more insidious and manipulative.”
“The Veda is our oldest extant human document and the Veda, from one point of view, is a great compilation of practical hints about Yoga.”
“The Secret of the Veda is the very book that I am reading now.”
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