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 Indologists had for so long told themselves that Indians lacked access to the “true” meaning of their texts that they no longer considered it a prejudice but a methodological principle and a necessary one at that.
  • Adluri, V. Against Occidentalism. The New School Research Matters. (2017); quoted in Kak, S. Racism, Eurocentrism, and Indology.

• 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