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Yajurveda, an Uncommon card
The Yajurveda is the Veda primarily of prose mantras for worship rituals.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Arts
- ATK
- 75
- DEF
- 89
- Power
- 164
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 84,000
Power 164 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 85 % of WikiCards cards.
Yajurveda quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Yajurveda card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Yajurveda is one of the four Vedas, and one of the ______ of Hinduism.
Answer
scriptures. Yajurveda is one of the four Vedas, and one of the scriptures of Hinduism. From the Yajurveda article on Wikipedia.
In which decade?
The exact century of the Yajurveda's composition is unknown, and estimated by Witzel to be between ____ and 800 BCE, contemporaneous with Sāmaveda and Atharvaveda.
Answer
1200s. The exact century of the Yajurveda's composition is unknown, and estimated by Witzel to be between 1200 and 800 BCE, contemporaneous with Sāmaveda and Atharvaveda. From the Yajurveda article on Wikipedia.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- An ancient Vedic Sanskrit text, it is a compilation of ritual-offering formulas that were said by a priest while an individual performed ritual actions such as those before the yajña fire.
- Yajurveda is one of the four Vedas, and one of the scriptures of Hinduism.
- The exact century of the Yajurveda's composition is unknown, and estimated by Witzel to be between 1200 and 800 BCE, contemporaneous with Sāmaveda and Atharvaveda.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Yajurveda article was read about 84,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 75 and blocks with 89: each hit it takes is cut by 36 %.
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Yajurveda (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Ms Sarah Welch, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.
