[{"id":"rigveda","slug":"rigveda","abbr":"rv","title_deva":"ऋग्वेदसंहिता","title_iast":"Ṛgveda Saṃhitā","title_en":"Rigveda","strata":"samhita","veda":"rigveda","structure":"10 maṇḍalas, 1,028 sūktas","levels":["mandala","sukta","rc"],"unit_count":10552,"blurb":"The oldest layer of the tradition, and the oldest surviving poetry in any Indo-European language. Metrical, accented, and recited by an unbroken chain of teachers for roughly three thousand years before anyone wrote it down."},{"id":"bhagavad-gita","slug":"bhagavad-gita","abbr":"bg","title_deva":"भगवद्गीता","title_iast":"Bhagavad Gītā","title_en":"Bhagavad Gita","strata":"gita","veda":null,"structure":"18 chapters","levels":["chapter","verse"],"unit_count":700,"blurb":"Spoken on a battlefield, between two drawn-up armies, before a single arrow is loosed. Seven hundred verses set inside the Bhīṣmaparvan of the Mahābhārata."},{"id":"isha","slug":"isha","abbr":"isha","title_deva":"ईशोपनिषत्","title_iast":"Īśopaniṣad","title_en":"Isha Upanishad","strata":"upanishad","veda":"shukla-yajurveda","structure":"A single chapter of eighteen mantras, forming adhyaya 40 of the Vajasaneyi Samhita. Kanva recension.","levels":["mantra"],"unit_count":18,"files":["upanishads/isha.json"],"reference_scheme":"isha.<mantra>","blurb":"The shortest of the principal Upanishads, and the one the tradition places first. Eighteen mantras on the self that pervades everything, and on the renunciation by which what is given may be enjoyed."},{"id":"mundaka","slug":"mundaka","abbr":"mundaka","title_deva":"मुण्डकोपनिषत्","title_iast":"Muṇḍakopaniṣad","title_en":"Mundaka Upanishad","strata":"upanishad","veda":"atharvaveda","structure":"Three mundakas of two khandas each.","levels":["mundaka","khanda","mantra"],"unit_count":64,"files":["upanishads/mundaka.json"],"reference_scheme":"mundaka.<mundaka>.<khanda>.<mantra>","blurb":"The higher knowledge and the lower, and the two birds on one tree. The source of the phrase satyam eva jayate."}]