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Vedic

"pertaining to the Vedas," 1845, from Veda + -ic.

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Vedic (disambiguation)

Vedic may refer to:

  • the Vedas, the oldest preserved Indic texts
    • Vedic Sanskrit, the language of these texts
    • Vedic period, during which these texts were produced
    • Vedic pantheon of gods mentioned in Vedas/vedic period
    • the Historical Vedic religion, of which the Vedas record the liturgy
    • Vedanga "auxiliary disciplines" explaining the Vedas
  • Upaveda, traditional Hindu disciplines of scholarship
    • Ayurveda (medicine)
    • Gandharvaveda (music)
    • Dhanurveda (martial arts)
  • in modern usage, anything loosely related to Hindu tradition
    • Hinduism in general
    • Vedic science (disambiguation)
    • Maharishi Vedic Approach to Health, based on Ayurveda
    • Bharati Krishna Tirtha's Vedic mathematics, system of mental calculation
    • Vedic University (disambiguation)
    • Vedic square, multiplication table
    • Vedic metal, music genre
acronym VEDIC
  • VEDIC microscope technique = Video-enhanced differential interference contrast microscopy

Usage examples of "vedic".

The highest Vedic teaching is the nondual, nonjudgmental Advaita Vedanta.

Everything from Vedic mathematics, physics, geography, Ayurveda and the study of human physiognomy, cosmology, astronomy and astrology to military strategy, self-defense and hand-to-hand combat, mastery of weapons, engineering and architecture .

In a flutelike voice, he sang of the sacred writings, or Vedas, composed well before the first millennium bc, and of the catalogue of magical yajnas, sacrificial formulas, mantras, and rituals that the Vedic religion embodied, and of the many schools, sects, and religions that had developed through the centuries: Sankhya, Yoga, Vedanta, Vaishnavas, Shaivas, Shak-tas, all of which were preached and practised under the separate canopies of Buddhism, Jainism, and Sikhism, which in turn took their impetus from the original Vedic, changing and refining the basic precepts into a multiplicity of separate doctrines : Karma, avatar, samsara, dharma, trimurti, bhakti, maya.

This latter contact had coloured his thought with Brahminic or Vedic beliefs and had given him the elements of Hindu civilization.

The unconquerable weapon of victory was the sacred formula Ahuna Vairya, infallible like the Vedic hymns or the Hindu mantras.

And there in that Upanishad she appears as the teacher of the Vedic gods themselves concerning the ultimate ground and source of their own powers and being.