This sarpasattra material was often considered an independent tale added to a version of the Mahabharata by " thematic attraction " ( Minkowski 1991 ), and considered to have a particularly close connection to Vedic ( Brahmana ) literature.

The Egyptian Papyrus of Kahun ( 1900 BCE ) and Vedic literature in ancient India offer one of the first written records of veterinary medicine.

The names of the characters ( Rama, Sita, Dasharatha, Janaka, Vasishta, Vishwamitra ) are all known in late Vedic literature, older than the Valmiki Ramayana.

* 11th century BC – The idea of a heliocentric solar system, with the Sun at the center, is possibly first suggested in the Vedic literature of ancient India, which often refer to the Sun as the " centre of spheres ".

M. K. V. Narayan distinguishes the Siva-linga from anthropomorphic representations of Siva, and notes its absence from Vedic literature, and its interpretation as a phallus in Tantric sources.

Such a theme of repeat succession is missing in Vedic literature.

He appears as a creator deity or supreme God Viswakarma Vedic deities in RV 10 and in Brahmana literature.

In all the cases which are to be found in the Vedic literature we are able to say with a fair degree of plausibility that the conception formed itself from the use of the epithet in question in the first place of some concrete god, and then, after denoting that deity in the special field of action, it was gradually made into a separate deity concerned merely with the sphere of action in question.

Though originally understood as a subordinate component of the essentially metaphysical concept of Ṛta, Dharma eventually grew to overshadow Ṛta in prominence in later Vedic and early Hindu literature.

For example, in texts belonging to the Vedic literature, we find individual Sanskrit names for each of the powers of 10 up to a trillion and even 10 < sup > 62 </ sup >.

Though historians have tried to trace the origin of Patiala ( as far as the name is concerned ) to Rig Vedic literature, the town as it stands today was founded by Ala Singh with the construction of the Qila Mubarak in 1763.

The earliest Vedic literature listed by organisation of function, not of caste, the Kshatriya ( holders of, or authority ) as first in rank, and the Brahmins second ( priests and teachers of law ), before the Vaisya ( Cattle-herders, merchant-traders, farmers and some artisan castes ), and the Sudra ( labourers, some farming castes and other artisan castes ).

However, the primacy of Vedic deities has been seconded to the deities of Puranic literature.

The earliest literature on Indian medical practice appeared during the Vedic period in India, i. e., in the mid-second millennium BCE.

By teaching the insights of the Vedic literature which deals with all aspects of life including spirituality, philosophy, yoga, religion, rituals, temples, arts and culture, music, dance, grammar, pronunciation, metre, astrology, astronomy, logic, law, medicine, surgery, technology, martial arts, military strategy, etc.

The notion of a heliocentric solar system, with the Sun at the center, is possibly first suggested in the Vedic literature of ancient India, which often refer to the Sun as the " centre of spheres ".

The university is accredited through the Ph. D. level by The Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools and offers degree programs in business, education, communications, mathematical science, literature, physiology & health, Vedic Science and sustainable living.

Maharishi Vedic Approach to Health uses 40 approaches, each one based on one of the 40 branches of Vedic literature.

According to MVAH, each of these 40 branches of Vedic literature has a direct correlation to various aspects of the human physiology.

Jotyish is a vedanga within the field of Vedic literature.

Vedic and Hindu religion, political thought, literature, mythology, and artistic motifs gradually became integral elements in local Southeast Asian cultures.

Müller was known for his liberal religious views and his philosophical speculations based on his reading of Vedic literature.

First, Tirthaji ’ s description of the mathematics as Vedic is most commonly criticised on the basis that, thus far, none of the sūtras can be found in any extant Vedic literature ( Williams, 2000 ).

On March 16, 2006, it filed a lawsuit contesting the California's Curriculum Commission's decision to reject many of the Vedic Foundation and Hindu Education Foundation's suggested edits to California's textbook curriculum on Hinduism and India, which were opposed by a number of organizations and individuals, claiming that many of the changes were revisionist.

It is rooted in Indoeuropean * d ( e ) y ( e ) w, meaning bright sky or daylight, from which also derived the name of Vedic god Dyaus and the Latin deus, ( god ) and dies ( day, daylight ).

The idea of rta laid the cornerstone of dharma's implicit attribution to the " ultimate reality " of the surrounding universe, in classical Vedic Hinduism the following verse from the Rig-Veda is an example where rta is mentioned:

Gandhara is the name of an ancient Hindu kingdom from the Vedic period and its capital city located between the Hindukush and Sulaiman Mountains ( mountains of Solomon ), although Kandahar in modern times and the ancient Gandhara are not geographically identical.

The practice of singing based on notes was popular even from the Vedic times where the hymns in Sama Veda, a sacred text, were sung as Samagana and not chanted.

In contrast to Carnatic music, the other main Indian classical music tradition originating from the South, Hindustani music was not only influenced by ancient Hindu musical traditions, historical Vedic philosophy and native Indian sounds but also enriched by the Persian performance practices of the Mughals.

The period of the composition, redaction and commentary of these texts is known as the Vedic period, which lasted from roughly 2000 to 1500 BCE.

It was formed in late 1998 as the political wing of the Maharishi Vedic Vishwa Prashasan ( MVVP ( Maharishi Global Administration Through Natural Law )), which had nominated thirty-four candidates in the February 1998 parliamentary election from Madhya Pradesh.

The Atharva Veda, representing an independent tradition markedly different from the other three Vedas, is a rich source parallel to the Vedic traditions of the Rig, Sam and Yajur Vedas, containing detailed descriptions of various kinds of magical rituals for different results ranging from punishing enemies, to acquisition of wealth health, long life, or a good harvest.

Modern scientific linguistics suggests that the name derived from the Proto-Indo-European root that also produces the Vedic pra math, " to steal ," hence pramathyu-s, " thief ", cognate with " Prometheus ", the thief of fire.

However, from a comparative Indo-European point of view, Sanskrit ( especially Vedic Sanskrit ) is closer to reconstructed Proto-Indo-European than are the Prakrits, so that Sanskrit belongs to a linguistically earlier stage of history.

For example, Taxila was an early centre of Vedic learning, possible from the 6th century BC or earlier ; the Platonic Academy founded in Athens in the 4th century BC seems to have included theological themes in its subject matter ; the Chinese Taixue delivered Confucian teaching from the 2nd century BC ; the School of Nisibis was a centre of Christian learning from the 4th century AD ; Nalanda in India was a site of Buddhist higher learning from at least the 5th or 6th century AD ; and the Moroccan University of Al-Karaouine was a centre of Islamic learning from the 10th century, as was Al-Azhar University in Cairo.

The first reference to the disapparance of the lower course of the Sarasvati is from the Brahmanas, texts that are composed in Vedic Sanskrit, but dating to a later date than the Veda Samhitas.

* In the Manu Smriti, the sage Manu, escaping from a flood, founded the Vedic culture between the Sarasvati and Drishadvati rivers.

Mythological River Saraswati / Vedic Saraswati ( also known as Saraswati Nadi, Saraswati Nala, Sarsuti and Chautang in certain places, variously spelt as Sarasvati ) is believed to have flowed during 6000 – 3000 BC from the melting glaciers of Garhwal Himalaya to Arabian Sea through the Thar Desert1, 2.

Some references indicate that the early people in Bengal were different in ethnicity and culture from the Vedic beyond the boundary of Aryandom and who were classed as ' Dasyus '.

However, the general cultural background of the Ramayana is one of the post-urbanization period of the eastern part of North India, while the Mahabharata reflects the Kuru areas west of this, from the Rigvedic to the late Vedic period.

In this conception the function of defensive fire was performed by the temple of the god Vulcanus that was situated to the South of the pomerium, sacred city wall, this location being in accord with what could be expected from the homology with the Vedic situation.

Names of Indo-Aryan gods Mitra and Varuna especially, from the Vedic religion have survived in texts and personal names, but it is not known if any religious centers actually existed.

Linguistics in ancient India derives its impetus from the need to correctly recite and interpret the Vedic texts.