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Chathurveda Samhitha

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Overview

The Chathurveda Samhitha (Sanskrit चतुर्वेदसंहिता Malayalam ചതുര് വേദസംഹിത) is a set of the four books making up the Chatur Veda Samhita, a complilation of all four Veda Mantras with many detailed studies in Malayalam.[1][2].

Etymology

Chathurveda Samhitha is made of three words - "Chathur", "[[Veda]]" and "[[Samhitha]]". "Chathur" meaning four (4), "[[Veda]]" meaning knowledge and "[[Samhitha]]" meaning collection. The detailed meaning of this word is "collection of Veda Mantras".

Vedas

The four Vedas are Rig Veda, Yajur Veda, Sama Veda and Atharva Veda. They consist of hymns called Mantras which contain all knowledge in "seed" form (Bheeja roopa). They are among the oldest known works of literature, originally passed down via the oral tradition. Many scholars like Maharshi Dayananda Saraswati claimed that Vedas originated at the beginning of this cycle of creation 1.97 billion (197 crore) years before, as per Soorya Sidhantha derived from Atharva Veda.

General belief

It is popularly believed (even by scholars like Shankara)that Vedas consists of four (4) parts -

  1. Mantras or Mantra Samhithas
  2. Brahmanas
  3. Aranyakas
  4. Upanishads

Reality about Vedas

Vedas consists of Mantra Samhithas only, which believed to be Apourusheya (Sanskrit अपौरुषेय) - not of human origin but divine creation. Brahmanas and Aranyakas are basically the same and Upanishads are written by sages (ancient scholars) as interpretation of Vedas.

  1. Vedas are written by Humans (Rishis), not of divine origin .
  2. It is commonly believed that Vedas are three (3) in number, not four (4). Many consider only Rig Veda, Yajur Veda and Sama Veda as Vedas. Atharva Veda said to have originated lately and is not part of Vedas [3].
  3. Vedas contain fearful begging by cowherd/shepherds to please the fierce natural forces [4].
  4. Vedas permit meat eating.
  5. Vedas mention about multitude of Gods.

About this book

The first time all four Veda Mantra Samhitas were printed (without errors) and with Swara-Sthana (punctuation for pronunciation) in Malayalam alphabets was the magum opus work of Narendra Bhooshan along with various studies on Vedic subjects.

The language of the Vedas is Vedic Sanskrit (mother of all languages in the world) which uses special charactors to give proper pronunciation.

Volumes

Contents of this book are compiled in 4 volumes, each of 1008 pages, totaling to

Volume 1

  • Vedaadyanthangal (Beginning & ends of Vedas)
  • Chatur Veda Paryatanam - a journey through 4 Vedas
  • Rigvedadi Bashya Bhoomika
  • Vedadhikara Niroopanam
  • Vaidika Swara Shaashtram
  • Vaidika Yagaswaroopam
  • Vaidika Vangmayathinte Rooparekha

Volume 2

Volume 3

Volume 4

  • Selected Sooktas with meaning
  • Mantraanukramanika

References

  1. ^ Narendra Bhooshan. "Vijay Kumar (Jeddah, 14, Saudi Arabia)'s review of Chatur Veda Samhita". Goodreads.com. Retrieved 2013-05-03.
  2. ^ "ചതുര്‌വേദസംഹിത ,chathurvedasamhitha Mathrubhumi || books". Buy.mathrubhumi.com. Retrieved 2013-05-03.
  3. ^ http://www.vedicgranth.org/misconceptions-on-vedas
  4. ^ http://agniveer.com/vedas-myths-misconceptions/
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