OM SAIRAM

Scriptures of India - have an honoured place in our culture. Our scriptures are not the ideas of mere intellectuals. Our great saints who's spiritual experiences have filled them with compassion and bliss has recorded their experiences for others to share. "God cannot be expressed through words, He is experience incarnate". There are 18 such texts namely:

• Vedas
  1. Riga Veda - consists mostly poems
  2. Yajur Veda - is prose
  3. Sama Veda - hymns set to music
  4. Attarvana Veda - form of practical instruction
  
  
• 4 upavedas
  1. Gandharva Veda - fine arts
  2. Dhanur Veda - the science of warfare
  3. Ayur Veda - life science
  4. Artha Veda - politics and economics
  
  
• 6 Vedangas - the scriptures written to help us in interpreting Vedas and to implement their teachings
  1. Siksha [phonetics]
  2. Kalpa [rituals]
  3. Vyakarana [grammar]
  4. Nirukta [etymology]
  5. Chandas [metre]
  6. Jyotisa [astronogy]
  
  
• 4 Upangas
  1. Mimamsa
  2. Nyaya
  3. Puranas - 18 nos.
  4. Dharma Shastras
  

Prasthanatraya is the trilogy of three books of Hindu philosophy
1. Upanishads - 18 nos.
2. Brahma sutras
3. Bhagvad gita

Epics - Ramayana and Mahabharata