Apaurusheya

Apaurusheya ( Apauruṣeya ^IAST "without an author") or apaurusheyatva - a Sanskrit term used to describe the Vedas - the main scriptures of Hinduism - as divinely revealed texts that have no author, divine or human. Apaurusheya- sabda is a specific concept applied to the Vedas.

Apaurusheya is the basic concept in such schools of Hindu philosophy as Vedanta and Mimansa , which accept the Vedas as the matchmakers Pramana (“self-verifying, self-verifying knowledge”). These schools believe that the Vedas were “heard” by the holy sages of the rishis . The mimans states that since the Vedas are composed of words (Sabda), words, in turn, consist of phonemes , and the phonemes are eternal, hence the Vedas are also eternal. When asked whether all words and sentences are eternal, philosophers mimansa answer that for the Vedas, the rules for combining phonemes are fixed and predetermined - this is their fundamental difference from other words and sentences. A line of similar arguments is also accepted in Vedanta.