The Veda was essentially the most valuable present for which the West had ever been indebted to the East.
— Voltaire
When the sacred teachings of historic India reached the West within the seventeenth century, a brand new path of knowledge opened for individuals who have been prepared (and ready). Sensible beings have all the time recognized that when the coed is prepared the instructor will seem. Students in Europe started translating Sanskrit, the language of the traditional Hindu scriptures referred to as the Vedas.
Thought of the world’s oldest literature, the Vedas are a set of hymns, poems, and writings, handed down orally for a lot of generations earlier than being recorded in writing between about 1500 to 1000 BCE (predating even the story of Moses).
