Tag Rigveda

Gayatri Mantra Incorrect ?

Gayatri Mantra, I was asked earlier, seems to be incorrect, as it contained the 24 letters as it is known to contain.

I have written a detailed article on this and explained how this view is incorrect.

Now based on Sanskrit Grammar, both old and Classical, an article has appeared and has gained wide acceptability.

It states that the Gayatri Mantra, as is being practised to day violates the Chandas or loosely translated as Prosody.

Chandas is a Metre.

Gayatri is more of a Metre than mere mantra text.

Where Are Manuscripts Of Vedas

There are four Vedas, Rig,Yajur, Sama and Atharva .

In addition to this, we have Upavedas,Vedangas,Parisista, not to speak of the Smritis.

Of this lot this is what has been collected.

"The complete corpus of Vedic mantras as collected in Bloomfield's Vedic Concordance (1907) consists of some 89,000 padas (metrical feet), of which 72,000 occur in the four Samhitas"

This is only for the Samhitas.

Brahmanas,Aranyakas,Upanishads remain.