Vedas prescribe Dharma and Yajna to Achieve that. Goal of Veda is to achieve everyone all sided perfection, both individually and collectively. There are about 20% overlap between rg veda and atharva veda. They all reveled to the descendents or disciples of the seers atharvan and angeerasa. There are total 730 suktas or hymns, the total of 6000 mantras most of them are metrical. In rg veda we call them mandala here we call them kanda. Most of the text is as same as rg veda, it has to be chanted as saman.Ītharva Veda (Mantras for Administration of Vedic Yajna).Ītharva Veda is a collection of 20 kandas or books. Note that Krishna yajurveda is also a overlap of 50% with the shukla yajurveda shakha. It has in all 4700 mantras, of which one third of them are rk mantras. It has both yajus mantras and rk mantras. Each have their own additional shakas or re-censions. Yajurveda has 2 major shaka or re-cension with the names of shukla yajurveda, and the Krishna yajurveda. Main Purpose : Mantras to perform Yajnas. Each sukta was assigned a title containing the name of the rishi, to whome the various mantras were reveled, the names of the meters of the verses and the deity to whom the mantras were addressed. So the total no of suktas in rgveda is 1017, and the no of mantras is 10512, all of which are metrical verses or rks. Rg veda has a total of 10 mandalas, rather the whole text is divided in to 10 mandalas. Main Purpose : Mantras to invoke Vedic Gods. ) which needs to be followed as per age and social responsibility.īhagavan Sri Krishna also re-iterates the theological and philosophical truth propagated by Vedas, and hence also called Pramana (self evident/proof) for Knowledge. Samanya Dharma - (Satya=Truthfulness, Nyaya=Common Justice, Ahimsa=Non-Violance, Dharma Rakshana=Protection of Dharma.) which has to be carried out by all, Apat-Dharma - (Protecting Animals & Property, Helping Poor and ill.)which needs to be dispensed at the time of calamity or in case personal of emergency and Varna-Ashrama Dharma - (Study of Knowledge=Medicine, Protection=Defence, Business and Trading, Service. There are three major categories of Dharma propagated by Vedas. Only Vedas propagate Dharma and Dharma can be known only by Vedas.
What has been prescribed by Vedas, which helps mankind to progress towards all perfection and without creating any disturbance to the nature is called Dharma. And to achieve that Vedas prescribe to Dharma and Yajna.
And the names are Rg Veda (Mantras to invoke Vedic Gods),Ītharva veda (Mantras for Administration of Vedic Yajna). In course of time, perhaps around 4000 before Christian era, the single collection of mantras was divided in to 4 collections based on their use. There are 3 types of mantras with the names of Rk Manta, Yajus Manta, and saman Manta. These mantras are the earliest literary or poetic work of entire humanity. Only about 5000 years ago, they were committed to writing by Vyasa (Krishna Dwaipayana Vyasa). They were preserved orally for a long time. The rishis numbered over 500, including women such as vaak, ambrini, apara, lopa mudra, turya, ghosha, etc. All of them are not revealed at a same time. Each mantra is a verse revealed to men and women of wisdom known as rishis. Mantras are deep spiritual truths and occurred phenomena revealed by the Devatas(Vedic Spiritual Gods) to the rishis (sages) in their deep meditation. Veda mantra is not manmade, in the sense, it is not born of human intellect or human imagination or speculation. These matras were also known as shruti and Amnaya. Vedas are eternal in nature and hence self evidence. The Veda refers to a collection of vedic mantras in vedic Sanskrit.