Hindu texts

Hindu texts are broadly considered Hindu scriptures. These include the Puranas, Itihasa and Vedas. Scholars hesitate in defining the term "Hindu scriptures" given the diverse nature of Hinduism, but many list the Bhagavad Gita and the Agamas as Hindu scriptures, and Dominic Goodall includes Bhagavata Purana and Yajnavalkya Smriti in the list of Hindu scriptures as well.

Quotes

• The Upanishads supply the basis of later Hindu philosophy; they alone of the Vedic corpus are widely known and quoted by most well-educated Hindus, and their central ideas have also become a part of the spiritual arsenal of rank-and-file Hindus.
  • Wendy Doniger, Textual Sources for the Study of Hinduism, 1st ed. (University of Chicago Press, 1990), pp. 2–3

• It is, I believe, no exaggeration to say that all the historical information which has been collected from all the books written in the Sanskrit language is less valuable than what may be found in the most paltry abridgement used at preparatory schools in England.
  • Thomas Babington Macaulay, Minute on Indian Education (2 February 1835)

Texts

• Bhagavad Gita
• Puranas
• Ramayana
• Vedas