There were many advanced technical books on many fields like Engineering, Chemical, Medical etc. written in Tamil. Saint Vyasa transferred most of them into Sanskrit and included them in Vedas.
When saint Vyasa compiled Vedas, the religious practices in north India got mixed up with many new additions due to foreign invaders. They were also included unintentionally in Vedas.
As there was no proper script and grammar for Sanskrit, the Vedas were kept oral. But later, the same practice continued stating that Vedas were sacred. Also, they were taught only to a particular community.
The language Sanskrit was taught as Divine and ladies were disallowed to read Vedas. To the worst, the priests chanting Vedas were advised to speak in Sanskrit in the middle if required.
Because of all the above restrictions, Vedas became foreign to common men. The knowledge of their own ancestors on various fields were also denied to them. But, Max Muller, a Christian who came to spread Christianity could learn Sanskrit and read Vedas!
Let us hope that the restrictions will get relaxed in future.
Rig Veda consists of roughly 10,150 slokas (Songs). Yajur Veda is having about 6700 slokas. Sama and Adharva Vedas are having about 5000 slokas in each. While Rig, Yajur and Sama Vedas are concentrating on more philosophical subjects, Adharva Veda deals with fully on materialistic world.
Adharva Veda is a treasure of knowledge. It has Mathematics, Medical, Chemicals and Engineering. During last century, one Sankara mutt seer who was a master in mathematics tried to explore various formulae in Adharva Veda to solve mathematical problems. He said that easy solutions are available for all the divisions of mathematics. But he could not complete the project. He called that method as 'Vedic mathematics'.
Vedas were compiled two thousand years before. There are many Vedic scholars in India as well as few in foreign countries. Everyone of them will chant the Vedas even today in the same meter if sung from the same Veda and with out a change in words. How is it possible?
It is very interesting but very tough. Our ancient masters developed a method of chanting the Vedas called 'Gana paatam'. The method is explained with an example.
If there are 10 or more words in a sloka, it will be sung like as follow:
1. First four words will be repeated.
2. Second word to fifth word will be repeated.
3. Third word to sixth word will be repeated ...... and so on.
There are so many similar methods are there to learn. So, no word can change in the process.
The present day Sanskrit and the Vedic Sanskrit are not the same. It requires special training to know the meaning of the Vedas. Very few selected people alone are there in this level.
To keep the meaning, many seers in the past have written explanations to Vedas. they are called 'Bashyams'. Explanations may change but Vedas will not change. Adhi Sankaracharya, Ramanuja and Madhvacharya
have written 'Bashyams' to Vedas at different times in the past. All of them were South Indians because they knew and have the real philosophical knowledge.
Vedas are the standing four pillars of Hinduism. Also, they are the proof for the knowledge of ancient Indians.
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