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Book: Hinduism in Five Minutes

Chapter: 22. How Many "Sacred Texts" does Hinduism have?

DOI: 10.1558/equinox.41689

Blurb:

People organize and count texts associated with Hinduism in various ways. This essay describes some of these sets of texts and addresses debates over what texts count as “sacred” and which groups can be counted as a single text or multiple texts.

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