The Friendly Treatises and the Commanding Treatises : There are four books under this heading: The Valmiki-Ramayana, the Yogavasishtha, The Mahabharata and the Harivamsa. These embody all that is in the Vedas, but only in a simpler manner. These are called the Suhrit-Samhitas or the Friendly Treatises, while the Vedas are called the Prabhu-Samhitas or the Commanding Treatises with great authority. These works explain the great universal truths in the form of historical narratives, stories and dialogues

Excerpt from All About Hinduism by Sri Swami Sivananda

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The Ramayana, the Adi-Kavya or the first epic poem, relates the story of Sri Rama, the ideal man. It is the history of the family of the solar race descended from Ikshvaku, in which was born Sri Ramachandra, the Avatara of Lord Vishnu, and his three brothers. The ideal characters like Rama, Sita, Lakshmana, Bharata and Sri Hanuman that we find in Ramayana firmly establish Hindu Dharma in our minds.

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The Mahabharata is the history of the Pandavas and the Pandavas. It gives a description of the great war, the Battle of Kurukshetra, which broke out between the Kauravas and the Pandavas who were cousins and descendants of the lunar race. The Mahabharata is an encyclopaedia of Hindu Dharma. It is rightly called the fifth Veda. There is really no theme in religion, philosophy, mysticism and polity which this great epic does not touch and expound.

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The Puranas are of the same class as the Itihasas. They have five characteristics (Pancha-Lakshana) viz., history, cosmology (with various symbolical illustrations of philosophical principles), secondary creation, genealogy of kings and of Manvantaras. All the Puranas belong to the class of Suhrit-Samhitas.

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Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, written by Mary Baker Eddy, is the foundation of the Christian Science movement. Its origin lay in notes growing out of biblical studies she undertook beginning in 1867 following a healing experience she reported in 1866. The first edition appeared in 1875 and went through over two hundred revisions before Eddy's death in 1910. Science and Health encapsulates the teachings of Christian Science. Christian Scientists often call it their "textbook." At Sunday serv ...

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The New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures (NWT) is a modern-language translation of the Bible published by the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York, Inc. and the International Bible Students Association of Brooklyn, New York (corporations in use by the religious organization commonly known as Jehovah's Witnesses). It was not the first, nor the last translation to be published by them, but it was thei ...

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• New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures - Characteristics of the Translation
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• New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures - The Kingdom Interlinear Translation

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An Historical Account of Two Notable Corruptions of Scripture is a dissertation by the English Mathematician and Scholar Isaac Newton. First published in 1754, twenty-seven years after Newton's death, it reviewed all the textual evidence available from ancient sources on two disputed Bible passages, at First John 5:7 and 1 Timothy 3:16. An Historical Account of Two Notable Corruptions of Scripture - First John 5:7. See also: Comma Johanneum In the King James Version Bible, First J ...

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Scriptures

The religious writings of any people that they regard as sacred and authoritative.

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A Christian theological definition of Scriptures according to CARM - The Christian Apologetics & Research Ministry:

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While the Upanishads are indeed classed within the fold of the "Vedas," their actual importance to Hindu thought has far exceeded that of possibly any other set of Hindu scriptures, and even resulted in the Bhagavad Gita, which is a self-proclaimed yoga upanishad. Thus, they deserve a look that is independent from the samhitas and brahamans, whose excessive ritualism the Upanishads famously rebelled against. They form Vedanta and ...

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Hindu scripture, Hindu scripture - The Vedas, Hindu scripture - The Upanishads, Hindu scripture - Post-Vedic Hindu scriptures, Hindu scripture - The Bhagavad Gita, Hindu scripture - The Puranas, Hindu scripture - Other Hindu texts

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The new books that appeared afterwards were called Smriti. Smrti literature includes Itihasas (epics like Ramayana, Mahabharata), Puranas (mythological texts), Agamas (theological treatises) and Darshanas (philosophical texts). The Dharmashastras (law books) are considered by many to form part of the smrti. From time to time great law-givers (eg Manu, Yajnavalkya and Parashara) emerged, who codified existing laws and eliminated obsolete ones to ensure that the Hindu way of life was consistent with both the Vedic spirit a ...

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Many a Hindu has said that the most succinct and powerful abbreviation of the overwhelmingly diverse realm of Hindu thought is to be found in the Bhagavad Gita. Essentially, it is a microcosm of Vedic, Yogic, Vedantic and even Tantric thought of the Hindu fold. Composed between the 5th and 2nd centuries BC, the Bhagavad Gita (literally: Song of the Lord) is a part of the epic poem Mahabharata and is revered in Hinduism. It is not limited to Vaishnavs, as some people incorrectly assume, since it is accepted by Tantrics and non-denominational ...

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Volume 1: The Divine Plan of the Ages - 1886 publish These volumes is intended to make the divine plan clear. It begins to fasten the reader the faith in God and to the Bible as from the God inspired revealing. Volume 2: The Time is at Hand - 1889 publish A complete Bible chronology offers. Treats the way of the return of the gentleman; humans of the sin, the anti-Christian; the earth large rejoicing year and Ch ...

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Studies in the Scriptures, Studies in the Scriptures - Origin and author, Studies in the Scriptures - Purpose, Studies in the Scriptures - Arrangement and contents, Studies in the Scriptures - Viewpoint and theology, Studies in the Scriptures - Criticism

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The Bible researchers the thought, who would replace the Bible to writing studies, is far. There are different methods the Bible to study. The six volumes are in such a way written, them many parts of the Bible contained, like the fitting Komentare and interpretations of the utterances of the Bible. How did Jesus lay the writing out? By the places from the old person will quoted and this with other places describing. They gave thus important and conclusive thoughts to their listeners. Like that contents of the volumes are created on the thou ...

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Studies in the Scriptures, Studies in the Scriptures - Origin and author, Studies in the Scriptures - Purpose, Studies in the Scriptures - Arrangement and contents, Studies in the Scriptures - Viewpoint and theology, Studies in the Scriptures - Criticism

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Assyrian Holy Scriptures. Orientalists show seven such books: the Books of Mamit, of Worship, of Interpretations, of Going to Hades; two Prayer Books (Kanmagarri and Kanmikri: Talbot)

and the Kantolite, the lost Assyrian Psalter.

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Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures

Principal scripture of Christian Science.

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The Ramayana is not the only religious scripture that views Ravana as evil. In the Bhagavata Purana, Ravana and his brother, Kumbakarna were said to be reincarnations of Jaya and Vijaya, gatekeepers at Vaikunta, the abode of Vishnu and were cursed to be born in Earth for their insolence. These gatekeepers refused entry to the Sanatha Kumara monks, who, because of their powers and austerity appeared as young children. For their insolence, the monks cursed them to be expelled from Vaikunta and to be born in Earth. The all-mercifu ...

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Ravana, Ravana - Birth and Early Life, Ravana - Tapasya, Ravana - Emperor of the World and Evil, Ravana - Conquest of Lanka, Ravana - Emperor of the Three Worlds, Ravana - Violations of Women, Ravana - Downfall, Ravana - Assessment, Ravana - In Scriptures, Ravana - In Ayya Vazhi, Ravana - Ravana's family

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The Mahayana scriptures were probably set in writing around the 1st century BCE. Some of them, such as the Perfection of Wisdom sutras, are presented as actual sermons of the Buddha had been hidden. By some accounts, these sermons were passed on by the oral tradition as with other sutras, but other accounts state that they were hidden and then revealed several centuries later by some mythological route. In addition to sutras, s ...

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Mahayana, Mahayana - Doctrine, Mahayana - Universalism, Mahayana - Enlightened wisdom, Mahayana - Compassion, Mahayana - Salvation, Mahayana - Mahayana Scriptures, Mahayana - Origins, Mahayana - Epigraphical evidence, Mahayana - Scriptures, Mahayana - The 4th Buddhist Council, Mahayana - Expansion 1st c.CE–10th c.CE, Mahayana - Bibliography, Mahayana - Older works

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It is believed the oldest surviving Buddhist manuscripts -indeed the oldest surviving Indian manuscripts of any kind- were recovered around Hadda. Probably dating from around the 1st century CE, they were written in Gandhari language and Kharoṣṭhī script on bark, and were unearthed in a clay pot bearing an inscription in the same language. They are part of the long-lost canon of the Sarvastivadin Sect that dominated Gandhara and was instrumental in Buddhism's spread into central and east Asia. The manuscripts are now in possession of the British Library. ...

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Hadda, Hadda - Background, Hadda - Works of art, Hadda - Buddhist scriptures, Hadda - Destruction, Hadda - Gallery

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Jews regard the "Old Testament" part of the Christian Bible as scriptural, but not the New Testament. Christians generally regard both the Old Testament and the New Testament as scriptural. The same books are presented in a different order in the Jewish Tanakh and the Christian Old Testament. The Torah/Pentateuch comes first in both. The Tanakh places the prophetic writings next (the word of God filtered through the minds of inspired men), then the historical material (the unseen action of God in history). The Old Testament inverts this order, since ...

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Names for books of Judeo-Christian scripture, Names for books of Judeo-Christian scripture - Jewish perspective, Names for books of Judeo-Christian scripture - Christian perspective, Names for books of Judeo-Christian scripture - Differences, Names for books of Judeo-Christian scripture - Similarities

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The Church against which the Reformers directed these arguments did not see scripture and the traditions of the faith as mutually exclusive sources of authority; they believed that scripture was handed down through its traditions. Accepted traditions were also perceived as cohesive in nature. The ones receiving the scripture trusted the people from whom they received it and their accompanying teachings. The proper interpretation of the Scriptures was seen as part of the faith of the Church, and seen indeed as the manner in which Biblical aut ...

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Sola scriptura, Sola scriptura - The singular authority of Scripture, Sola scriptura - Scripture and Tradition, Sola scriptura - Tradition vs. Scripture, Sola scriptura - Legacy, Sola scriptura - Biblical references

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