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Veda  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. Note: The language of the Vedas is usually called Vedic Sanskrit, as distinguished from the later and more settled form called classical Sanskrit.






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"Veda" Quotes from Famous Books



... resemblances are remarked; the same is to be said of the grammar. M. Max Mueller shows that in Sanscrit, Zend, Lithuanian, Doric, Slavonic, Latin, Gothic, the forms of the auxiliary verb to be are all varieties of one common type, and that "the coincidences between the language of the Veda and the dialect spoken at the present day by the Lithuanian recruits at Berlin are greater by far than between French and Italian, and that the essential forms of grammar had been fully framed and ...
— History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) - Revised Edition • John William Draper

... temple, being shut up in the dark and not allowed to see the sun or light.[54] The prince who was to become Inca of Peru had to fast for a month without seeing light.[55] On the day when a Brahman student of the Veda took a bath, to signify that the time of his studentship was at an end, he entered a cow-shed before sunrise, hung over the door a skin with the hair inside, and sat there; on that day the sun should not ...
— Balder The Beautiful, Vol. I. • Sir James George Frazer



Words linked to "Veda" :   Sama-Veda, religious text, Hindooism, sacred writing, Vedist, sacred text, Atharva-Veda, Rig-Veda, Aranyaka, Vedanga, Yajur-Veda



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