RELIGIONS
HINDUISM
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Question
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What do Hindus call texts received directly from God and passed on by word of mouth?
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Puja
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Moksha
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Vedas
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None of the Above
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Vedic texts are sometimes called shruti, which means hearing. For hundreds, maybe even thousands of years, the texts were passed on orally.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Vedas were first composed sometime around 1500-1000 BCE in the north-western region of the Indian subcontinent– present day Pakistan and northwest India-and they were transmitted orally over many generations before eventually being committed to writing.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Rigveda Samhita is the oldest extant Indic text. It is a collection of 1, 028 Vedic Sanskrit hymns and 10, 600 verses in all, organized into ten books (Sanskrit: mandalas). The hymns are dedicated to Rigvedic deities.
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