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• Timeline of Books
  • Samhitha
  • Upanishads
  • Others
• Agamas
  • Tantras (Shakta Agamas)
• Vedanta (Dvaita vs Advaita)
• Advaita Vedanta (by Adi Sankara)

• Verses

• Books

• Prior to 200 BCE
  • Minor Law Books
• After 6th Century
• Later Texts
• Modern Books
  • Writings of Sister Nivedita (Margaret E. Noble)
  • Writings of Rabindranath Tagore

Timeline of Books

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

• Brahma Sutra (500 BCE)
• Mahabharata (900-400 BCE)
• Bhagavad Gita (400 BCE)
• Ramayana (400 BCE)
• Mimamsa Sutra (300-200 BCE)
• Shiva Sutras (120 BCE)
• Yoga Sutras of Patanjali (500-100 BCE)
• Nyaya Sutras (200-100 BCE)
• Vaiseṣika Sutra (200-100 BCE)
• Samkhya Sutra
• Arthashastra (400-200 CE)
• Puranas (250-1000 CE)
• Abhinavabharati (950-1020 CE)
• Yoga Vasistha (750 CE)

Agamas

• Agamas are traditions.
  • They are voluminous and are divided into Shaiva, Shakta and Vaishnava.
  • They are also called Tantras, but that's mostly Shakta Agamas.
  • The Agama texts include:
    • 28 Shaiva Agamas
    • 64 Shakta Agamas (also called Tantras)
    • 108 Vaishnava Agamas (also called Pancharatra Samhitas)
    • and numerous Upa-Agamas.

Dvaita Vedanta vs Advaita Vedanta

• Dvaita Vedanta is dualistic
• Advaita Vedanta is monistic

Advaita Vedanta

It is based on the teachings of Adi Shankara, who is the first Shankaracharya.

His followers are Shankaracharyas. (Acharya means teacher, so Shankaracharya means teacher in the ways of Shankara)

He set up four monasteries (called mathas or pithams) where realised men would teach.

Verses

Purusa Sukta:

• Rig Veda 10.90.1

Books

• Brahma Sutras
• Samkhya Sutras
• Mimamsa Sutras
• Nyaya Sutras
• Vaiseṣika Sutra
• Yoga Sutras

• Pramana Sutras

• Puranas

• Dharma Shastra
• Artha Shastra
• Kamasutra
• Divya Prabhandham
• Tirumurai
• Shiva Samhita

Vedanta Sutras
Grihya Sutras (Household Rites)

Prior to 200 BC

• Manu Smriti (Laws of Manu)
• Dharma Sutras (The Sacred Laws of The Aryas)
  • Apastamba Dharma Sutra, Gautama Dharma Sutra, and the other 2 Sutras
  • Sections: Prasna, Patala, Khanda
• Visnu Smriti / Vaishanava Dharma Shastra / Vishnu Sutras (The Institutes of Vishnu / Laws)
  • Contains punishments (Insulting caste members, "I shall visit your 'daughter'/'wife'")
  • Supports Casteism
  • Death for all criminals
  • Eunuchs as bodyguards for Warriors' wives

Minor Law Books

• N

After 6th Century

Later Texts

• The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali
• The Hatha Yoga Pradipika
• Dakshinamurti Stotra
• The Sánkhya Aphorisms of Kapila
• Shakuntala (Poem, by Kalidas)
• The Little Clay Cart (Drama)
• Verses of Vemana
• Black Marigolds
• Vikram and the Vampire
• Hymns of the Tamil Shaivite Saints
• Songs of Kabir (By Tagore)
• Yoga Vashisht or Heaven Found (Excerpts from Yoga Vashishta)

Modern Books

Relax with Yoga
Great Systems of Yoga
Old Deccan Days
Ramakrishna, His Life and Sayings
The Gospel of Ramakrishna
Hindu Mythology, Vedic and Puranic
How To Be A Yogi
Twenty-two Goblins
Indian Fairy Tales
Indian Myth and Legend
Karma-Yoga
Hindu Mysticism

Writings of Sister Nivedita (Margaret E. Noble)

Kali the Mother
The Web of Indian Life
Studies from an Eastern Home

Writings of Rabindranath Tagore

Gitanjali
Saddhana, The Realisation of Life
The Crescent Moon
Fruit-Gathering
Stray Birds
The Home and the World
Thought Relics
Songs of Kabîr