RELIGIONS
HINDUISM
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Question
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Hindus recite ____
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from the Vedas every day, from memory.
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the names of the gods in alphabetical order.
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Aryan hymns only at funerals.
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stories from the Vedas by reading them aloud.
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Reciting the entire Rigveda in the Ghanam style just once could take up to 450 hours!
Detailed explanation-2: -Smrti is a Sanskrit word, from the root Smara (), which means “remembrance, reminiscence, thinking of or upon, calling to mind", or simply “memory". The word is found in ancient Vedic literature, such as in section 7.13 of the Chandogya Upanishad.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Atharvaveda is a collection of 20 books, with a total of 730 hymns of about 6, 000 stanzas. The text is, state Patrick Olivelle and other scholars, a historical collection of beliefs and rituals addressing practical issues of daily life of the Vedic society, and it is not a liturgical Yajurveda-style collection.
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