Atharvaveda
The fourth Veda, of spells, healing and household life, recognised as Veda later than the other three; home of the Mundaka, Prashna and Mandukya Upanishads.
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Appears in
- What are the Vedas? Scriptures
There are four of them. The Rigveda, the Samaveda, the Yajurveda and the Atharvaveda.
- The Unwritten Library Treatise
For roughly three thousand years, the most important texts in India were never written down. They were heard, memorized syllable by syllable, and carried across a…
- The Four Fires Treatise
When the early texts want to say "all of sacred knowledge," they very often say three. Where, then, is the Atharvaveda.
- The reversal Treatise
Somewhere in the oldest stratum of the tradition, in the Atharvaveda, a poet did the unthinkable.
- Devas and Asuras Deities
The Atharvaveda, the fourth of the Vedas, already uses the word pejoratively.
- The Prashna Upanishad: six questions, one year of waiting Treatise
The Prashna Upanishad, of the Atharva Veda and associated with the Pippalada branch, is structured as six questions put to the sage Pippalada by six named seekers…