The word Veda literally means knowledge, the knowledge par excellance or supreme knowledge. The Hindus consider the Vedas as the original and prime source of their cultural life. The thinking and feelings of Hindus are regulated by the Vedas. It is almost impossible to perceive and fully understand the ethos of spiritual and cultural lives of Indians without having an insight into Vedas. Most of the Indian scholars consider the Harappa-Mahenjodaro culture (4000 BC) to be a later phase of the Vedic culture. This places the date of the Rig Veda the earliest of the Vedas around 10,000BC. For centuries the Vedas have been handed down to the posterity by oral tradition. Hence the name sruti what is heard.
The great sage Krishna Dvaipayana Vyasa or Veda Vyasa is said to have effected whis division by collecting all the mantras exant during his time and editing them into four groups : Rig, Yajur, Sama and Atharva. He taught them to his four disciples: Raila ( Rig Veda ) Vaisampayana ( yajur veda ) Jaimani ( sama veda ) and Sumantu ( Atharava veda ). This is how the four Vedas took place.
The great sage Krishna Dvaipayana Vyasa or Veda Vyasa is said to have effected whis division by collecting all the mantras exant during his time and editing them into four groups : Rig, Yajur, Sama and Atharva. He taught them to his four disciples: Raila ( Rig Veda ) Vaisampayana ( yajur veda ) Jaimani ( sama veda ) and Sumantu ( Atharava veda ). This is how the four Vedas took place.
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