The Vedas in English. All 10 books and chapters! Completely available offline.
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About Hindu Vedas - English
Hindu Vedas - English is a books & reference app developed by Digital Industria Apps.
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Hindu Vedas - English has been downloaded 62 thousand times. In the last 30 days, the app was downloaded 68 times.
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Hindu Vedas - English is rated 4.24 out of 5 stars, based on 150 ratings.
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Hindu Vedas - English is free to download. The APK download size is 26.78 MB. The latest version available is 2.0.1. The last update was on September 10, 2023.
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Hindu Vedas - English requires Android 4.1+ or higher. The app has a content rating of Everyone. The app has been available on Google Play November 2015.
Description
This is the English translation of Hinduism's holy book, The Vedas.
This app contains all 10 books, and all chapters for every book. All content for the book is offline, and no internet connection is needed to browse the books and chapters. Enjoy!
From religionfacts.com: "What are the Vedas?"
The most sacred scriptures of Hinduism are the Vedas ("Books of Knowledge"), a collection of texts written in Sanskrit from about 1200 BCE to 100 CE. As sruti, the Vedas are regarded as the absolute authority for religious knowledge and a test of Hindu orthodoxy (both Jains and Buddhists reject the Vedas). "For Hindus, the Veda is a symbol of unchallenged authority and tradition." {1}
Selections from the Vedas are still memorized and recited for religious merit today. Yet much of the religion presented in the Vedas is unknown today and plays little to no role in modern Hinduism.
As historical and religious literature often is, the text is written from the perspective of the most powerful groups, priests and warrior-kings. Scholars say it is therefore unlikely that it represents the totality of religious belief and practice in India in the first millennium BCE. This perspective is especially evident in the earlier parts of the Vedas, in which the primary concerns are war, rain, and dealing with the "slaves," or native inhabitants of India.
Initially, the Vedas consisted of four collections of mantras (Samhitas), each associated with a particular priest or aspect of ritual: Rig Veda (Wisdom of the Verses); Sama Veda (Wisdom of the Chants); Yajur Veda (Wisdom of the Sacrificial Formulas); and Atharva Veda (Wisdom of the Atharvan Priests).
Over the centuries, three kinds of additional literature were attached to each of the Samhitas: Brahmanas (discussions of the ritual); Aranyakas ("books studied in the forest"); and Upanishads (philosophical writings).
In these later texts, especially the Upanishads, the polytheism of the earlier Vedas has evolved into a pantheism focused on Brahman, the supreme reality of the universe. This concept remains a key feature of Hindu philosophy today.
- The Rig Veda
Composed as early as 1500 BC, the Rig Veda or Rg Veda ("Wisdom of the Verses") is the oldest of the four Vedic collections and one of the oldest surviving sacred texts in the world. The Rig Veda consists of 10,552 verses (collected into 10 books) of hymns and mantras used by the hotri priests.
The hymns of the Rig Veda focus on pleasing the principal gods Indra (war, wind and rain), Agni (the sacrificial fire), Surga (the sun) and Varuna (the cosmic order) through ritual sacrifices. Along with governing important matters of life such as rain, wind, fire and war, the Vedic gods also forgive wrongdoing (5.85.7) and mete out justice in the afterlife (1.97.1).
Deceased ancestors are able to influence the living (10.15.6), so they are also appeased with rituals (10.15.1-11). The afterlife of the Rig Veda is eternal conscious survival in the abode of Yama, the god of the dead (9.113.7-11). It is the gods, not karma, that are responsible for assuring justice in this life and the next (7.104).
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★★★★★
A Great Gift and a Great Opportunity! I've really appreciated a simple, no frills, no in-your-face constant advertising blitz opportunity to read the Rig Veda. It's a tough read in English because it wasn't intended to be read in that way. None-the-less, this translation has done an excellent job at making the stories in the Vedas comprehendable to English language readers and that really is an amazing gift. Thank you!
★★★★★
Welp you guys get four stars. Though I do appreciate the antiquity, I hate that it uses lots of words that aren't in modern English. There's not much outreach when I read this. So there you go, four stars for using perfect outdated english. That's just me being humble and generous. I'm uninstalling regardless.
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It's only the Rig Veda.what about the other Vedas? Can u pls provide the summary of all four vedas.
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Do not take this AAP many things are changed n this is wrong Rigveda never
says to worship God's, but it says to worship only one God.!! It's wrong
★★☆☆☆
Didn't open and more over to exit the Device has to be swithed off from power all together. Poorly developed APP. Just waste of my MB.
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