Dharma sustain the society and maintains the social order.To achieve that Vedas prescribe to Dharma and Yajna. DHARMAĭharma comes from the sanskrit word dhri which mean carry or hold. Vedas prescribe Dharma and Yajna to Achieve that. Goal of Veda is to achieve everyone all sided perfection, both individually and collectively. There are about 20% overlap between rg veda and atharva veda. They all reveled to the descendents or disciples of the seers atharvan and angeerasa. There are total 730 suktas or hymns, the total of 6000 mantras most of them are metrical. In rg veda we call them mandala here we call them kanda. Main motive: Mantras for Administration of Vedic Yajna.Ītharva Veda is a collection of 20 kandas or books. Most of the text is as same as rg veda, it has to be chanted as saman. Note that Krishna yajurveda is also a overlap of 50% with the shukla yajurveda shakha. It has in all 4700 mantras, of which one third of them are rk mantras. It has both yajus mantras and rk mantras. Each have their own additional shakas or re-censions. Yajurveda has 2 major shaka or re-cension with the names of shukla yajurveda, and the Krishna yajurveda. Each sukta was assigned a title containing the name of the rishi, to whome the various mantras were reveled, the names of the meters of the verses and the deity to whom the mantras were addressed. So the total no of suktas in rgveda is 1017, and the no of mantras is 10512, all of which are metrical verses or rks. Rig veda has a total of 10 mandalas, rather the whole text is divided in to 10 mandalas. Main motive : Mantras to invoke Vedic Gods. In course of time, perhaps around 4000 before Christian era, the single collection of mantras was divided in to 4 collections based on their use, the names are Rig Veda (Mantras to invoke Vedic Gods), Yajur Veda (Mantras to perform Yajnas), Sama Veda (Mantras for Chanting), Atharva veda (Mantras for Administration of Vedic Yajna). These mantras are the earliest literary or poetic work of entire humanity. Rk Manta, Yajus Manta, and saman Manta are the three types of mantras. Vedas are the oldest texts of Hinduism.Ībout 5000 years ago, they were committed to writing by Vyasa (Krishna Dwaipayana Vyasa). Mantras are deep spiritual truths and occurred phenomena revealed by the Devatas to the rishis. Veda mantra is not manmade, in the sense, it is not born of human intellect or human imagination or speculation. The Vedic Mantras are spoken by the seers (Rishis). It refers to a collection of vedic mantras in vedic Sanskrit.
Any of the four collections forming the earliest body of Indian scripture, consisting of the Rig Veda, Sama Veda, Yajur Veda, and Atharva Veda, which codified the ideas and practices of Vedic religion and laid down the basis of classical Hinduism.