Veda

1. Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa Vālmīki 10 authority · 2 neutral 12 citations · 21 passages

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   The preceptors' Vedic learning is cited as the qualifying authority for conducting Sagara's sacrifice.

   Having made that resolve, the king, together with his company of preceptors, learned in the Vedas in the matter of the sacrifice, began to prepare to perform the rite.

2. Manusmṛti Manu 8 authority 8 citations · 31 passages

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   The Veda is repeatedly invoked as the ultimate scriptural authority underlying cosmology, naming, and the fruits of conduct.

   From fire, wind, and the sun, he milked forth the triple eternal Veda—distinguished as Ṛc, Yajus, and Saman—for the accomplishment of the sacrifice.

3. Atharvaveda (Paippalāda) Anonymous (Vedic) 3 authority 3 citations

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   The passage explicitly names 'the Veda' as the authority Kaśyapa's ritual conduct conforms to.

   May the Brāhmaṇas partake of the oblation, even as Kaśyapa does so in accordance with the Veda.

4. Viṣṇu Smṛti Viṣṇu 3 authority 3 citations · 13 passages

   chapter 1 5 passages anchored here · chapter 3 · chapter 37 2 passages anchored here · chapter 51 · chapter 68 · chapter 71 2 passages anchored here · chapter 82

   The Vedas are repeatedly invoked throughout as the supreme textual/ritual authority underlying both the cosmogony and the legal-social order.

   He created the guardians of places, the guardians of the worlds, the rivers, mountains, and trees, The seven sages learned in *dharma*, the Vedas with their ancillary sciences, and the gods and anti-gods;

5. Slokantara Unknown 1 authority · 1 neutral 2 citations · 5 passages

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   The Veda is explicitly named as a body of scripture whose mastery defines the highest class of Brāhmaṇa.

   A Brāhmaṇa who has mastered the Vedas is defined as a Brāhmaṇa who has complete knowledge of the Veda scriptures.

6. Tarkasaṃgraha Annaṃbhaṭṭa 1 authority 1 citation

   ch. 6

   The Vedic sentence is invoked as spoken by the Lord and therefore entirely valid, relied upon as the ultimate authority for verbal testimony.

   The Vedic, since it is spoken by the Lord, is entirely a valid means of knowledge.

7. Bṛhaspati Smṛti Bṛhaspati 1 authority 1 citation · 2 passages

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   The Veda is named twice as a foundational source of authority, first alongside Smṛti and custom, then as the basis of Manu's supremacy.

   9 The Wife's Share In the Veda, in the treatises of Smṛti, and in worldly custom, by the wise, the wife is remembered as half the body, equal in the fruit of merit and demerit.

8. Kātyāyana Smṛti Kātyāyana 1 authority 1 citation · 3 passages

   chapter 2 · chapter 4 · chapter 5

   The Vedas are cited repeatedly both as a source of ritual power and as the ultimate textual standard against which other norms (custom) are measured.

   By the power of the sound of the Vedas, the gods dwelling in heaven are also pleased, being satisfied by the worship of the twice-born.

9. Parāśara Smṛti Parāśara 1 authority 1 citation · 2 passages

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   The Veda is invoked as foundational authority in p-ebf4c4 and p-99d2e7.

   The four-faced Brahmā, having remembered the Veda, likewise remembers the *dharmas*, as does Manu in each successive *kalpāntara* (end of a cosmic cycle).

10. 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*`.

11. 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.

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

    chapter i

    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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