चार वेद उनके वर्ण्य विषय एवं उनके विभाग

भारतीय परंपरा में वेदों का अत्यधिक महत्व है हमारे यहां चार वेद हैं ऋग्वेद यजुर्वेद सामवेद एवं अथर्ववेद ऋग्वेद में स्तुति की गई है यजुर्वेद में यज्ञ यागादि कर्मकांड है सामवेद संगीत का वेद है एवं अथर्ववेद में सभी प्रकार की सामाजिक एवं आर्थिक समस्याओं का निवारण है प्रत्येक वेद के ब्राह्मण आरण्यक और उपनिषद के रूप में कर विभाग पाए जाते है
There are four Vedas: the Rigveda, the Yajurveda, the Samaveda and the Atharvaveda.[9][10] Each Veda has four subdivisions - the Samhitas (mantras and benedictions), the Brahmanas (commentaries on and explanation of rituals, ceremonies and sacrifices - Yajñas), the Aranyakas (text on rituals, ceremonies, sacrifices and symbolic-sacrifices), and the Upanishads (texts discussing meditation, philosophy and spiritual knowledge). Some scholars add a fifth category - the Upāsanās (worship). The texts of the Upanishads discuss ideas akin to the heterodox sramana traditions. The Samhitas and Brahmanas describe daily rituals and are generally meant for the Brahmacharya and Gr̥hastha stages of the Chaturashrama system, while the Aranyakas and Upanishads are meant for the Vānaprastha and Sannyasa stages, respectively.
Vedas are śruti ("what is heard") distinguishing them from other religious texts, which are called smr̥ti ("what is remembered"). Hindus consider the Vedas to be apauruṣeya, which means "not of a man, superhuman" and "impersonal, authorless", revelations of sacred sounds and texts heard by ancient sages after intense meditation.
The Vedas have been orally transmitted since the 2nd millennium BCE with the help of elaborate mnemonic techniques. The mantras, the oldest part of the Vedas, are recited in the modern age for their phonology rather than the semantics, and are considered to be "primordial rhythms of creation", preceding the forms to which they refer. By reciting them the cosmos is regenerated, "by enlivening and nourishing the forms of creation at their base."