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Vedic may refer to:


Ancient India

traditional Hindu culture: The Vedic Civilization is the Indo-Aryan culture associated with the Vedas. ... The Vedas (Sanskrit: वेद) are the main scripture in Hinduism, and are a large corpus of texts originating in Ancient India. ... Vedic Sanskrit is the language of the Vedas, which are the earliest sacred texts of India,. The Vedas were first passed down orally and therefore have no known date. ... The verses of the Vedas have a variety of different meters. ... The pitch accent of Vedic Sanskrit is traditionally divided by Sanskrit grammarians into three qualities, udātta raised (acute accent), anudātta not raised (grave accent) and svarita sounded (circumflex). ... The oral tradition of the Vedas (Śrauta) consists of several pathas, recitations or ways of chanting the Vedic mantras. ... Shruti (what is heard) is a canon of Hindu scriptures. ... This article discusses the historical religious practices in the Vedic time period; see Dharmic religions for details of contemporary religious practices. ...

modern coinages: This article needs cleanup. ... This article or section may contain original research or unverified claims. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ...

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Vedic science may refer to a number of claims, ancient and modern, Hindu, occultist or New Age, of allegedly scientific systems of thought found in or based on the Vedas. ... Maharishi Vedic Medicine (also known as Maharishis Consciousness-Based Health Care or Maharishi Ayurveda) was founded in the mid 1980s by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, creator of the transcendental meditation system. ... Vedic mathematics is a system of mental calculation developed by Shri Bharati Krishna Tirthaji in the middle 20th century which he claimed he had based on an appendix of Atharvaveda, an ancient text of the Indian teachings known as the Vedas. ... Vedic metal is a form of Heavy metal music popularized in South Asia and South East Asia. ... Differential interference contrast microscopy (DIC), also known as Nomarski Interference Contrast (NIC) or Nomarski microscopy, is an optical microscopy illumination technique used to enhance the contrast in unstained samples. ... A microscope (Greek: micron = small and scopos = aim) is an instrument for viewing objects that are too small to be seen by the naked or unaided eye. ...

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Yagna is an ancient vedic ritual, where sacrifices are made to a particular divinity, using fire (Agni) as a medium. ...

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