Vedic Hinduism

E470300

ancient Indian religion form of Hinduism religious tradition

Vedic Hinduism is the ancient form of Hindu religious practice centered on the Vedas, involving ritual sacrifice, hymns, and strict oral traditions maintained by various Vedic schools.

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All labels observed (6)

Label	Occurrences
Vedic religion	13
Brahmanism	3
Vedic Hinduism canonical	3
Vedic tradition	2
Brahmanical Hinduism	1
Vedic culture	1

Statements (86)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	ancient Indian religion ⓘ form of Hinduism ⓘ religious tradition ⓘ
centralPractice	Agnihotra NERFINISHED ⓘ Ashvamedha NERFINISHED ⓘ Rajasuya NERFINISHED ⓘ Sautramani NERFINISHED ⓘ Soma sacrifice NERFINISHED ⓘ Vajapeya ⓘ Vedic sacrifice ⓘ animal sacrifice ⓘ fire rituals ⓘ recitation of hymns ⓘ
coreBelief	authority of the Vedas ⓘ
developedFrom	Indo-Aryan religious traditions ⓘ Indo-Iranian religious traditions ⓘ
emphasizes	correct ritual performance ⓘ precise recitation of mantras ⓘ sacred sound ⓘ
hasAlternativeName	Vedic religion ⓘ Vedism NERFINISHED ⓘ early Vedic religion ⓘ
hasCoreText	Atharvaveda NERFINISHED ⓘ Rigveda NERFINISHED ⓘ Samaveda NERFINISHED ⓘ Yajurveda NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasGoal	cattle wealth ⓘ fertility ⓘ maintenance of cosmic order ⓘ prosperity ⓘ rain ⓘ victory in battle ⓘ
hasKeyConcept	brahman (sacred utterance) ⓘ cosmic order ⓘ debt to the gods ⓘ yajña ⓘ ṛta ⓘ
hasKeyDeity	Agni NERFINISHED ⓘ Indra NERFINISHED ⓘ Mitra NERFINISHED ⓘ Prajapati NERFINISHED ⓘ Rudra NERFINISHED ⓘ Savitr NERFINISHED ⓘ Soma NERFINISHED ⓘ Ushas NERFINISHED ⓘ Varuna NERFINISHED ⓘ Vishnu NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasLanguage	Vedic Sanskrit NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasLaterDevelopment	Bhakti Hinduism NERFINISHED ⓘ Smarta tradition NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasRitualLanguageFeature	accented recitation ⓘ fixed oral transmission ⓘ pitch accent ⓘ
hasRitualMedium	sacrificial fire ⓘ
hasRitualSpecialist	adhvaryu priest NERFINISHED ⓘ brahman priest ⓘ hotr priest ⓘ udgatr priest ⓘ
hasRitualSubstance	Soma plant NERFINISHED ⓘ clarified butter (ghee) ⓘ grains ⓘ milk ⓘ
hasScripturalBasisIn	Vedas NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasSocialContext	Vedic tribal society ⓘ early varna system ⓘ
hasTextualComponent	Aranyakas NERFINISHED ⓘ Brahmanas NERFINISHED ⓘ Samhitas NERFINISHED ⓘ early Upanishads NERFINISHED ⓘ
influenced	Mimamsa school NERFINISHED ⓘ Vedanta schools NERFINISHED ⓘ classical Hinduism ⓘ
maintainedBy	Vedic schools ⓘ śākhās ⓘ
originatedInRegion	Northwestern Indian subcontinent NERFINISHED ⓘ
practicedInRegion	Indian subcontinent ⓘ
recognizedBy	Hindu orthodoxy NERFINISHED ⓘ
relatedTo	Gṛhya rituals NERFINISHED ⓘ Śrauta tradition ⓘ
timePeriod	first millennium BCE ⓘ second millennium BCE ⓘ
transmittedBy	oral tradition ⓘ
usesMeter	Vedic meters ⓘ gayatri meter NERFINISHED ⓘ jagati meter NERFINISHED ⓘ trishtubh meter ⓘ

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Instruction

You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10.

# Requirements
- If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list.
- If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list.
- Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf".
- Do not get too wordy.
- Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.

Input

Subject: Vedic Hinduism
Description of subject: Vedic Hinduism is the ancient form of Hindu religious practice centered on the Vedas, involving ritual sacrifice, hymns, and strict oral traditions maintained by various Vedic schools.

Referenced by (23)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Madhyandina Shakha → scriptureOf → Vedic Hinduism ⓘ

Somayajna → religiousTradition → Vedic Hinduism ⓘ

this entity surface form: Vedic religion

Ashvamedha → religiousTradition → Vedic Hinduism ⓘ

this entity surface form: Vedic religion

Rajasuya → religiousTradition → Vedic Hinduism ⓘ

this entity surface form: Vedic religion

Brahmanas → religiousTradition → Vedic Hinduism ⓘ

Paippalada → scriptureOf → Vedic Hinduism ⓘ

this entity surface form: Vedic religion

Paippalada → religiousTradition → Vedic Hinduism ⓘ

this entity surface form: Brahmanism

Samhita → scriptureOf → Vedic Hinduism ⓘ

Vayu → religion → Vedic Hinduism ⓘ

this entity surface form: Vedic religion

Kathaka Shakha → partOf → Vedic Hinduism ⓘ

this entity surface form: Vedic tradition

Hindu scriptures → associatedWith → Vedic Hinduism ⓘ

this entity surface form: Vedic religion

Indo-Aryan cultural sphere → historicallyLinkedTo → Vedic Hinduism ⓘ

this entity surface form: Vedic culture

Chanakya → influencedBy → Vedic Hinduism ⓘ

this entity surface form: Vedic tradition

Siamese → religion → Vedic Hinduism ⓘ

this entity surface form: Brahmanism

Manusmriti → tradition → Vedic Hinduism ⓘ

this entity surface form: Brahmanical Hinduism

Videha → religiousTradition → Vedic Hinduism ⓘ

this entity surface form: Vedic religion

Kingdom of Mithila → religion → Vedic Hinduism ⓘ

this entity surface form: Vedic religion

Loy Krathong → religiousContext → Vedic Hinduism ⓘ

this entity surface form: Brahmanism

Shakya republic → religion → Vedic Hinduism ⓘ

this entity surface form: Vedic religion

Kasi Kingdom → religion → Vedic Hinduism ⓘ

this entity surface form: Vedic religion

Sham No Varunah → religiousTradition → Vedic Hinduism ⓘ

this entity surface form: Vedic religion

Hindu god Varuna → religion → Vedic Hinduism ⓘ

subject surface form: Varuna

this entity surface form: Vedic religion

asha → relatedTradition → Vedic Hinduism ⓘ

subject surface form: Asha

this entity surface form: Vedic religion