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शास्त्र वृक्ष — The Sacred Scripture Tree
शास्त्र वृक्ष · Scripture Tree
Śruti — The Revealed
श्रुति — प्रकटित ज्ञान
The oldest layer of Hindu wisdom — directly heard by the ancient Rishis, not composed but revealed.
4 Vedas
चार वेद
The foundational revealed wisdom — Shruti, heard by the ancient Rishis
4 Upavedas
चार उपवेद
Subsidiary sciences — medicine, martial arts, music, statecraft
6 Vedangas
षड् वेदाङ्ग
The six limbs that preserve and decode the Vedas
Upanishads
उपनिषद्
The philosophical essence of the Vedas — the end of knowledge
Smṛti — The Remembered
स्मृति — स्मरण की परम्परा
Texts composed by human sages — remembered, debated, and refined across generations of tradition.
6 Darshanas
षड् दर्शन
The six schools of Hindu philosophy
Itihasa
इतिहास
The great epics — living civilizational memory
Puranas
पुराण
Ancient narratives of gods, creation, and cosmic history
Canonical Grouping + Parallel Tradition
प्रामाणिक त्रयी + समानान्तर परम्परा
Foundational philosophical triads and the living traditions of temple worship and practice.
Prasthana Trayi
प्रस्थान त्रयी
The three pillars of Vedanta
Agama & Tantra
आगम एवं तन्त्र
The living traditions of temple worship and spiritual practice
Living Canon
जीवित परम्परा
Actively studied, taught, and available to read — the living heart of Hindu sacred literature.
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गीता विश्व
Divine dialogues on dharma, karma, and liberation
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Vedas
वेद
The Vedas are the oldest and most sacred scriptures of Sanatana Dharma — revealed knowledge (Shruti) heard by …
Upanishads
उपनिषद्
The Upanishads are the philosophical crown of the Vedas — Vedanta, literally 'the end of the Vedas.' In these …
Itihasa
इतिहास
Itihasa means 'thus it happened' — these are not mythology but civilizational memory. The Ramayana and Mahabha…
Puranas
पुराण
The Puranas ('ancient lore') are the encyclopedias of Hindu tradition — they take the philosophical truths of …
Gita Universe
गीता विश्व
The Bhagavad Gita is just one leaf on a vast tree. The Hindu tradition contains 126 catalogued Gitas — divine …
Darshana
दर्शन
Darshana means 'seeing' or 'viewpoint' — these are the six classical schools of Hindu philosophy that interpre…
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