The oldest writings in the Sanskrit language are the Vedas. They include hymns, prose essays, sacred philosophical works composed as dialogues between a teacher and student, and two epic poems, the Mahabharata and the Ramayana. Together, the Vedas form the theological core and spiritual heart of today’s Hindu religion. The Vedas were thought to be written down over a thousand years, starting around 1,400 BCE. They likely existed as oral traditions for centuries or millennia earlier. Based on the language in the written versions, historians speculate that the Vedas were first told, in some form, around 4,000 BCE. Hindu tradition says the Vedas were composed in 3,500 BCE when Krishna, an earthly incarnation of the Hindu god Vishnu, was living. That is not too far off from the historians’ guesses.
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