Rig VedaComplete Edition. E-book. Formato EPUB Vyasa   -  Sanzani, 2022  - 

The Vedas are a collection of hymns and other ancient religious texts written in India between about 1500 and 1000 BCE. It includes elements such as liturgical material as well as mythological accounts, poems, prayers, and formulas considered to be sacred by the Vedic religion.According to tradition, Vyasa is the compiler of the Vedas, who arranged the four kinds of mantras into four Samhitas(Collections). There are four Vedas: the Rigveda, the Yajurveda, the Samaveda and the Atharvaveda.The basic Vedic texts are the Samhita “Collections” of the four Vedas:Rig-Veda “Knowledge of the Hymns of Praise”, for recitation.Sama-Veda “Knowledge of the Melodies”, for chanting.Yajur-Veda “Knowledge of the Sacrificial formulas”, for liturgy.Atharva-Veda “Knowledge of the Magic formulas”, named after a kind of group of priests.

The MahabharataComplete Edition. E-book. Formato EPUB Vyasa   -  Sanzani, 2022  - 

Besides its epic narrative of the Kurukshetra War and the fates of the Kaurava and the Pandava princes, the Mahabharata contains much philosophical and devotional material, such as a discussion of the four "goals of life" or purusharthas (12.161). Among the principal works and stories that are a part of the Mahabharata are the Bhagavad Gita, the story of Damayanti, an abbreviated version of the Ramayana, and the Rishyasringa, often considered as works in their own right. Traditionally, the authorship of the Mahabharata is attributed to Vyasa. There have been many attempts to unravel its historical growth and compositional layers. The oldest preserved parts of the text are thought to be not much older than around 400 BCE, though the origins of the epic probably fall between the 8th and 9th centuries BCE. The text probably reached its final form by the early Gupta period (c. 4th century). The title may be translated as "the great tale of the Bharata dynasty". According to the Mahabharata itself, the tale is extended from a shorter version of 24,000 verses called simply Bharata.