Table of the Vedas
This table shows the correlation of various books of the Vedas, listing for each Veda the corresponding Saṁhitās (hymn collections), Brāhmaṇas (ceremonial handbooks), Āraṇyakas (forest treatises) and Upanishads (metaphysical dialogs). The bracketed titles under Saṁhitās are names of some of the different Śākhās (branches), versions or recensions of the same texts. The parentheses indicate synonymous titles. This is not a complete list of all Veda texts, but it does include those translated in The Vedic Experience, the primary source of quotations in Dancing with Śiva.§
