The scripture of the Hindu is broadly divided into Shruti (Sanskrit ??????
Shruti , the main body of the Hindu canonical scripture, comprises the following The Veda or Vedas – the Rig-Veda, the Sama-Veda, the Atharva-Veda, the Yajur-Veda. The four Vedas comprise the Samhitas – texts of prayers and hymns, charms, invocations and sacrificial formulae. The Rig Veda is the Book of Devotional Verse, the Yajur Veda is the Book of Sacrificial Formulae, the Sama Veda is the Book of Chants, and the Atharva Veda is the book of Mystico-therapeutic Priest craft. Their composition precedes their arrangement into the four Samhitas by a long period of oral transmission. The word Veda is derived from the root word Vid or Knowledge and is cognate with the English words wisdom, wit Then there are the 3 Vedic appendices The Aranyakas The Brahmanas The Upanishads The Bhagavad Gita (the Song Celestial) is actually a part of the Mahabharata epic (The Great Bharata epic) but by universal consent and acclaim has attained the status of Shruti over time because of the eternal verities
