Category:Veda

Ve"da, n. Etym: [skr. v, properly, knowledge, from vid to know. See Wit.]

Defn: the ancient sacred literature of the hindoos; also, one of the Four collections, called rig-veda, yajur-veda, sama-veda, and Atharva-veda, constituting the most ancient portions of that Literature.

Note: the language of the vedas is usually called vedic sanskrit, as Distinguished from the later and more settled form called classical Sanskrit.