LITERATURE QUESTIONS
ASIAN LITERATURE
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Poems, hymns, myths, rituals
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Poems, novels, myths, rituals
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Poems, songs, facts, rituals
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Poems, songs, techniques, myths
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I still don’t like you
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Detailed explanation-1: -A Veda is a collection of poems or hymns composed in archaic Sanskrit by Indo-European-speaking peoples who lived in northwest India during the 2nd millennium BCE. The hymns formed a liturgical body that in part grew up around the soma ritual and sacrifice and were recited or chanted during rituals.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Vedas are made up of four compositions, and each veda in turn has four parts which are arranged chronologically. The Samhitas are the most ancient part of the Vedas, consisting of hymns of praise to God. The Brahmanas are rituals and prayers to guide the priests in their duties.
Detailed explanation-3: -There are four types of Vedas – Rigveda, Samaveda, Yajurveda, and Atharvaveda.
Detailed explanation-4: -There are four Indo-Aryan Vedas: the Rig Veda contains hymns about their mythology; the Sama Veda consists mainly of hymns about religious rituals; the Yajur Veda contains instructions for religious rituals; and the Atharva Veda consists of spells against enemies, sorcerers, and diseases.
Detailed explanation-5: -The complex Vedic ceremonies, for which the hymns of the Rigveda were composed, centred on the ritual sacrifice of animals and the drinking of a sacred, mind-altering liquor pressed from a plant called soma.