Encyclopedia of India–China Cultural Contacts v1.c7.s10.t3.16

v1.c7.s10.t3.16

**Main Religious Forms** The *Vedas*, in the main, is a mirror of the social life shortly after the disintegration of primitive Indian society. Then, given the poor state of social productivity and thinking, people generally could not arrive at a right understanding of various natural phenomena, and they were curious about and even fearful of natural phenomena that had a direct and considerable impact on their life, but had to explain such things to themselves or their fellowmen. From such a need, the oldest religious ideas arose in ancient India