Veda

(n.) The ancient sacred literature of the Hindus; also, one of the four collections, called Rig-Veda, Yajur-Veda, Sama-Veda, and Atharva-Veda, constituting the most ancient portions of that literature.

校对:奥菲莉娅

• These sagas, epics, and vedas do supply, in addition to arch?ology and philology, a third source of information about those vanished times. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The vedas, says Mr. Basu, were transmitted chiefly in the households by the women. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• There was no literature except the oral tradition of the Vedas, and that was chiefly monopolized by the Brahmins; there was even less knowledge. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Every Aryan people had its long poetical records thus handed down, its sagas (Teutonic), its epics (Greek), its vedas (Old Sanscrit). 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.

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