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Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
The ancient Hindu collection of sacred verses, hymns, prayers, and teachings were called the ____
A
Bible
B
Torah
C
Vedas
D
Koran
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The Rigveda or Rig Veda (Sanskrit: ṛgveda, from ṛc “praise” and veda “knowledge") is an ancient Indian collection of Vedic Sanskrit hymns (sūktas).

Detailed explanation-2: -The four Vedas are the Rigveda (Knowledge of the Verses), the Yajurveda, the Samaveda, and the Atharvaveda. The first three Vedas-Rig, Yajur, and Sama-are known as the trayi-vidya (“threefold knowledge”).

Detailed explanation-3: -The Vedas are a collection of hymns and other religious texts composed in India between about 1500 and 1000 BCE. It includes elements such as liturgical material, as well as mythological accounts, poems, prayers, and formulas considered to be sacred by the Vedic religion.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Vedas, translated as “knowledge” in Sanskrit, are a collection of hymns presenting key Hindu teachings regarding the Divine. Deemed eternal truths, the Vedas were passed down via an oral tradition for thousands of years before Veda Vyasa is believed to have compiled them in written form.

Detailed explanation-5: -What is the Veda? The Aryans called their most sacred text Veda, meaning the ‘knowledge’. It was believed to have arisen from the infallible ‘hearing’ (śruti), by ancient seers, of the sacred deposit of words whose recitation and contemplation bring stability and wellbeing to both the natural and human worlds.

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