the Vedas

1. Slokantara Unknown 1 neutral 1 citation · 3 passages

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   The Vedas are explicitly named as a scriptural corpus whose mastery or neglect characterizes moral standing

   It is because he does not perform *yajña*, he gives no charity¹² to scholars, he has no ascetic practice, he does not perform *agnihotra*, he is not celibate, his words are not true, he has no knowledge of the study of all the Vedas, he has no vows, he has no love for the Brāhmaṇas, sages, Śaiva and Sogata priests.

2. Yājñavalkya Smṛti Yājñavalkya 1 authority 1 citation · 2 passages

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   The Vedas are explicitly named as revelation and as the first of the fourteen sources of knowledge.

   The Purāṇas, Nyāya, Mīmāṃsā, Dharmaśāstra, and the Aṅgas, together with the Vedas, are the fourteen sources of knowledge and of `*dharma*`.

3. Yama Smṛti Yama 1 authority 1 citation · 2 passages

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   The Vedas are named as both the foundation of Yama's authority and as a source directly cited to support a specific teaching.

   / that sometimes a person whose life is at its end simply dies—this is sung by the Vedas and the sages who were consulted.

4. Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa Vālmīki 1 authority 1 citation

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   Supārśva invokes Rāvaṇa's Vedic learning as a source of authority he should heed in refraining from killing Sītā.

   "O hero, lord of rākṣasas, you who are versed in the Vedas, who have completed your studies and vows, who are always devoted to your own dharma — why do you contemplate the slaying of a woman?

5. The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana Vatsyayana 1 authority 1 citation

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   Explicitly named as one of the approved sources of such knowledge in the closing verse.

   "The means of producing love and sexual vigour should be learnt from the science of medicine, from the Vedas, from those who are learned in the arts of magic, and from confidential relatives.

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