Which is the first Hindu Scripture?

Which is the first Hindu Scripture?

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Sundrekand

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VEDAS , are THE VERY FIRST SCRIPTURES .THEY ARE CALLED '' SRUTI'' BECAUSE THE MAHARSHIS HEARD THEM IN THEIR DEEP MEDITATION WITH SWARAM AND REMEMBERED AS IT IS.

SO VEDAS ARE SAID AS '' APORUSHEYYAMULU"" (NOT WRITTEN BY ANY PERSON).

THEY ARE ETERNAL DHARMAS .

These are FOUR IN NUMBER ( DIVIDED SO BY VEDA VYAASA) 1.RIG VEDA 2.YAJUR VEDA 3.SAAMA VEDA 4. ADHARVANA VEDA,

Actually Veads are referred as TRAYEE (THREE ONLY ,RIG,YAJUR and SAAMA VEDAS) .The Fourth one Adharvana VEDA IS SAID TO HAVE COME FROM THESE THREE .

So '' Trayee Vedyam.....'' it is called.

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Brihma Veda is first then it goes in to three like Rk,Sam and Yju.

Vedas, Upanishads

Rig Veda , one among the four Vedas of Hinduism is the first Hindu scripture.

Rigveda.

Though there were various scriptures written and all those ancient ones are of Vedic Dharma(Hindu )

Vedas are the one considered as basis of Santana(Eternal) Dharma

"Rigveda is the first one" The Rig-Veda is divided into twenty-one sections.
The Rig Veda is the oldest of the Vedas. All the other Vedas are based upon it and consist to a large degree of various hymns from it.It's existence is debatable and date back to 12000 to 15000 yrs old though."

Brahma Gyaan and Manusmriti are it's contents but it is said that manumitIto tampered to an extent by brahmins then and the meanings of shlokas were misinterpreted
Lord Buddha rejects many veresus of manusmriti and gives the actual interpretation one can learn through the teachings of Lord Buddha and Swami Vivekanand."

the accumulated treasury of spiritual laws discovered by different persons in different times" constitutes the sacred Hindu texts. Collectively referred to as the Shastras, there are two types of sacred writings in the Hindu scriptures: Shruti (heard) and Smriti (memorized).

Sruti literature refers to the habit of ancient Hindu saints who led a solitary life in the woods, where they developed a consciousness that enabled them to 'hear' or cognize the truths of the universe. Sruti literatures are of two parts: the Vedas and the Upanishads.
There are four Vedas:

* The Rig Veda -"Royal Knowledge"
* The Sama Veda - "Knowledge of Chants"
* The Yajur Veda - "Knowledge of Sacrificial Rituals"
* The Atharva Veda - "Knowledge of Incarnations"

There are 108 extant Upanishads, of which 10 are most important: Isa, Kena, Katha, Prashna, Mundaka, Mandukya, Taitiriya, Aitareya, Chandogya, Brihadaranyaka.

The three most important of Smriti literature are:

* The Bhagavad Gita
The Mahabharata (written in allegorical or defacto language)
The Ramayana

Rig Veda

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