A report on Vedas

Four Vedas
The Vedas are ancient Sanskrit texts of Hinduism. Above: A page from the Atharvaveda.
Rigveda manuscript in Devanagari
A page from the Taittiriya Samhita, a layer of text within the Yajurveda

The Vedas (,, वेदः) are a large body of religious texts originating in ancient India.

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11th-century Vaikuntha Chaturmurti. It is one of the iconic representation of the Pancharatra Vyuhas theory found in some medieval Hindu temples.

Pancharatra

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Religious movement in Hinduism that originated in late 3rd-century BCE around the ideas of Narayana and the various avatars of Vishnu as their central deities.

Religious movement in Hinduism that originated in late 3rd-century BCE around the ideas of Narayana and the various avatars of Vishnu as their central deities.

11th-century Vaikuntha Chaturmurti. It is one of the iconic representation of the Pancharatra Vyuhas theory found in some medieval Hindu temples.

Jiva Gosvami had stated in his Paramātma Sandārbha, forming part of six principal Sandārbhas, or philosophical treatises of Gaudiya Vaishnavism, that, "Seeing that the imperfect scriptures in the modes of passion and ignorance bring only a host of troubles, and also seeing that the original Vedas are very difficult to follow properly, and thus being very dissatisfied with both of these, the all-knowing scripture authors affirm the superiority of the Pancharatras, which describe the pure absolute truth, Narayana, and the worship of the Lord, which is very easy to perform."

Massive celebration of Durga Puja in India

Hindus

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Hindus are people who religiously adhere to Hinduism.

Hindus are people who religiously adhere to Hinduism.

Massive celebration of Durga Puja in India
Hindus at Har Ki Pauri, Haridwar near river Ganges in Uttarakhand state of India.
A Hindu wedding ritual in India
A young Nepali Hindu devotee during a traditional prayer ceremony at Kathmandu's Durbar Square.
Hinduism by country, worldmap (estimate 2010).

Their sacred texts are also the Vedas and the Upanishads.

The Child Saint Sambandar, Chola dynasty, Tamil Nadu. From Freer Gallery of Art, Washington DC. He is one of the most prominent of the sixty-three Nayanars of the Saiva Bhakti movement.

Bhakti movement

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Significant religious movement in medieval Hinduism that sought to bring religious reforms to all strata of society by adopting the method of devotion to achieve salvation.

Significant religious movement in medieval Hinduism that sought to bring religious reforms to all strata of society by adopting the method of devotion to achieve salvation.

The Child Saint Sambandar, Chola dynasty, Tamil Nadu. From Freer Gallery of Art, Washington DC. He is one of the most prominent of the sixty-three Nayanars of the Saiva Bhakti movement.
A copper alloy sculpture of a Shiva Bhakti practitioner from Tamil Nadu (11th Century or later).
Meerabai is considered one of the most significant sants in the Vaishnava bhakti movement. She was from a 16th-century aristocratic family in Rajasthan.
Dhekiakhowa Bornamghar at Jorhat. Namghars are places of congregational worship and centres of local self-governance in Assam, introduced by Bhakti saints such as Sankaradeva, Madhavadeva and Damodaradeva
Depiction of Andal, a major poet of the Bhakti movement

Madeleine Biardeau states, as does Jeanine Miller, that Bhakti movement was neither reform nor a sudden innovation, but the continuation and expression of ideas to be found in Vedas, Bhakti Marga teachings of the Bhagavad Gita, the Katha Upanishad and the Shvetashvatara Upanishad.

Shiva as the Lord of Dance

Natya Shastra

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Sanskrit treatise on the performing arts.

Sanskrit treatise on the performing arts.

Shiva as the Lord of Dance
Natya Shastra in Thai art
The Natyasastra discusses dance and many other performing arts.
The Natyashastra influenced other arts in ancient and medieval India. The dancing Shiva sculpture in Badami cave temples (6th–7th century CE), for example, illustrates its dance movements and Lalatatilakam pose.

The text re-asserts a similar message in the closing chapter, stating for example, in verses 36.20–21 that performance arts such as drama, songs, music, and dance with music are equal in importance as the exposition of the Vedic hymns, and that participating in vocal or instrumental music once is superior to bathing in river Ganges for a thousand days.

Statue of Vaiṣṇava Sahajiyā poet Chandidas and his lover Rajakini, at his birthplace of Nanoor

Vaishnava-Sahajiya

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Form of Hindu tantric Vaishnavism focused on Radha Krishna worship that developed in the region of Greater Bengal .

Form of Hindu tantric Vaishnavism focused on Radha Krishna worship that developed in the region of Greater Bengal .

Statue of Vaiṣṇava Sahajiyā poet Chandidas and his lover Rajakini, at his birthplace of Nanoor
Krishna and Radha in a Pavilion (18th-century), an Indian painting of Krishna and Radha engaged in sexual intercourse.
Painting depicting the divine dance of Rasa Lila

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