The gleaming antiquity of my India – vedas and sushruta

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   Vedas are regarded to be one of the foundations of Hinduism. Many Hindus believe that the Vedas are eternally existing (apaurusheya). While many historians regard the Vedas as some of the oldest surviving texts in the world, they estimate to have been written down between 2500 and 500 BCE. 

1. The Rig Veda: The Book of Mantra 
The Rig Veda is a collection of songs or hymns and is a major source of information on the Rig Vedic civilization. It is the oldest book in any Indo-European language. Some people say that Rig Veda are as early as 12000 BC - 4000 B.C. The Rig-Vedic is collection of mantras consists of 1,017 hymns. 

2. The Sama Veda: The Book of Song 
The Sama Veda is purely a rhythmic collection of melodies (‘saman’). The hymns in the Sama Veda, used as musical notes, were almost completely drawn from the Rig Veda. Hence, its text is a reduced version of the Rig Veda. 

3. The Yajur Veda: The Book of Ritual 
The Yajur Veda is another collection and was made to be used in ceremonial religion. The Yajur Veda practically served as a guide for the priests who execute sacrificial acts. 

4. The Atharva Veda: The Book of Spell 

The last of the Vedas, This is completely different from the other three Vedas and is next in importance to Rig-Veda with regard to history and sociology and are also simpler in language.  

The four Yugas viz., Satya, Treta, Dwapara and Kaliyuga. 

In Kali Yuga,the knowledge and power of man is restricted. Vedas may have more relevance to especially Kaliyuga which is left with only 25%.truth (In Satya 100% truth prevailed; in Treta 25% of truth lost, in Dwapara 50%), There is a universal world which is infected with impurities and problems .Huge Floods and famine, war and crime are in this very age. 

Sushruta (Around 800 BC) was an ancient Indian surgeon and is the author of Sushruta Samhita, in which he describes over 300 surgical procedures and 120 surgical instruments and classifies human surgery. He lived, taught and practiced near Ganga in the area that corresponds to the present day city of Varanasi.

Because of this he is also known by the title "Father of Surgery." Much of this is contained in a series of volumes he authored as the Sushruta Samhita.

I am genuinely feeling like paying my gratitude towards the almighty to provide me a birthplace with this glorifying past and certainly an extremely bright future.

      
  

Source:  Written by Myself And a bit reference from :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vedas
http://www.stephen-knapp.com/vedic_culture_hinduism_a_short_introduction.htm