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Hindu scriptures are classified into two parts: shruti or ?ruti, meaning what has been heard and smriti, or sm?ti, meaning what has been retained or remembered. The Vedas are classified under ?ruti.
The following list provides a somewhat common set of reconstructed dates for the terminus ante quem of Hindu texts, by title or genre. All dates here given ought to be regarded as roughly approximate, subject to further revision, and generally as relying for their validity on highly inferential methods and standards of evidence.
- Samhita, Brahmana layers of the Vedas
- Rigveda, 1500 - 1100 BCE
- Samaveda, 1200 - 800 BCE
- Yajurveda, 1100 - 800 BCE
- Atharvaveda, 1000 - 800 BCE
The early Upanishads were composed over 900 - 300 BCE.
- Others
- Mahabharata, 400 BCE - 400 CE
- Bhagavad Gita, 400 BCE - 300 CE
- Ramayana, 400 BCE - 400 CE
- Samkhya Sutra
- Mimamsa Sutra, 300-200 BCE
- Arthashastra, 400 BCE - 200 CE
- Nyaya Sutra, 2nd century BCE
- Vaiseshika Sutra, 2nd century BCE
- Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, 100 BCE - 500 CE
- Brahma Sutra, 500 to 200 BCE
- Puranas, 3rd - 16th century CE
- Shiva Sutras, 8th century CE
- Abhinavabharati, 950 - 1020 CE
- Yoga Vasistha, 6th - 14th century CE
Video Timeline of Hindu texts
See also
- List of historic Indian texts
- Manusm?ti
Maps Timeline of Hindu texts
References
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