AGELESS PYRAMIDS OF LITERATURE

AGELESS PYRAMIDS OF LITERATURE

The ancient Hindu kings did not raise any massive memorials ,like those of Pyramids and Great Walls to commemorate their victories but nevertheless  they created the Epics, the Puranas and the Vedas. They added what ever they wanted to say into these literature and preserved them through oral traditions, with great care, like the Egyptians preserved their mummies in the pyramids. Thus the Indians gained immortality by constructing ageless pyramids of literature like the Vedas,  the Mahabharata, the Ramayana, and the Puranas. Thus we could see in Mahabharata, the culture, the politics, the religion and the philosophy of the ancient people of India.In the Vedas they left for the posterity a unique piece of literary document of more than ten thousand hymns composed by highly learned sages in that remote period of time and simultaneously a system of  unbelievable security was  framed to ensure that the text is not changed,altered ,modified or distorted in any way. Dictionaries and explanatory codes were also   devised to interpret the hymns. Any addition to Vedic literature was subjected to stringent pre-review. Since the Vedas were passed on orally, the volume was kept optimum by  means of constant review. These verses make sense simply because they were important at the time when they were incorporated in  the Vedas.

The Vedas

This is the well known set of four Vedas which is a world heritage literary document and the most ancient living memorial to the ages gone by. The Vedas are not only the chief sources of secular human heritage  but also the storehouse of  information on ecology,environment, and geography. They present the shape of the Vedic land  when the Vedic hymns were composed in the remote period of time centuries ago as well as its  cultural traditions.The  study of Vedic names  of persons and places , cities ,towns ,rivers, mountains, forests, oceans, seas, etc. and their identification with the present  day scenario  reveals the historical geography  and the identity of the country and its inhabitants.