Vedas in the Śrīmad Devī Bhāgavatam: The four primary scriptures of Hinduism (Rig, Sama, Yajur, Atharva) — considered eternal and revealed rather than authored. The source of all sacred knowledge.
The four primary scriptures of Hinduism (Rig, Sama, Yajur, Atharva) — considered eternal and revealed rather than authored. The source of all sacred knowledge.
On this site, Vedas is treated as a reading aid rather than a final doctrinal definition: use it to move from a question about a term into the chapters where the term actually appears.
…from the threefold sorrows of existence. O highly fortunate one! Narrate to us the Purâ n a equivalent to the Vedas. O Sûta! Those persons that do not hear the Purâ n as, are certainly deprived by the Creator, though they have apparently the organ of hearing, of th…
…igh souled persons); inasmuch as I am questioned by them about the highly meritorious Purâ n a, famous in the Vedas. I will now speak in detail about this Purâ n a, the best of the Âgamas, approved of by all the Vedas and the secret of all the S’âstras. O Brahmins!…
…are shortlived and their intellect (Buddhi) is not sharp; they cannot realise the meaning after studying the Vedas; knowing this in every Dvâpara Yuga Bhagavân expounds the holy Purâ n a Samhitas. The more so because women, S’udras, and the lower Dvijas are not en…
…also these Purânas, as vast in their nature; say this. 4-5. Sûta said :-- In long-past days, Satyavati's son Vedas Vyâs, while in his own hermitage on the banks of the river Sarasvati, was greatly wondered to see a pair of Châtakas (Sparrows). He saw the pair putt…
…He was afterwards known as Hayagrîva, the horse-faced! Oh! what more wonder can there be than this? Whom the Vedas even praise, all the Devas rest on Whom, Who is the Cause of all causes, the Âdi Deva Jagannath (the Lord of the universe), Oh! how is it that His he…
…Pundits divide in three classes, the objects of hearing, as :-- (1) Sâttvik, (2) Râjasik and (3) Tâmasik. The Vedas and other S’âstras are Sâttvik; the literature Sahitya is the Râjasik and war news and finding fault with others is Tâmasik. The wise persons again s…
…, thus :-- 27-32. Brahmâ said :-- “O Devî! I have come to understand on the authority of all the words of the Vedas, that Thou art the only One Cause of this Universal Brahmânda. The more so when Thou hast brought the best Puru s a Vishnu, endowed with discriminati…
…te one! A great doubt has arisen on your statement. This is ascertained by all the wise men as written in the Vedas, Purânas and other Sâstras that Brahmâ, Vishnu and Mahes'var, these three Devas are eternal. None is superior to them in this Brahmâ nd a. Brahmâ cre…
…Supreme S’akti is worshipped by all the Devas. Verily verily, I say unto you that this is decided, in all the Vedas and other S’astras that there is nothing higher than this Âdyâ S’akti. Therefore this Supreme S’akti should be worshipped anyhow; either in Her Sagu…
…nth chapter on S’iva's granting boon in the Mahapurâ n a S’rîmad Devî Bhâgavatam of 18,000 verses by Maharshi Veda Vyâs.
…an though guilty of committing vicious deeds, becomes pure again by the practice of Karmas as enjoined in the Vedas, so a woman, too, though guilty of adultery, becomes pure again when she is again in the period of her menstruation. At these words of Chandra Deva,…
…st Skandha on the birth of Pururavâ, in the Mahâpurâ n am Srimad Devî Bhâgavatam of 18,000 verses by Maharshi Veda Vyâs.