What was the outcome of the scripture period? Explain in detail..
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The four Vedas were transmitted in various śākhās (branches, schools).[131][132] Each school likely represented an ancient community of a particular area, or kingdom.[132] Each school followed its own canon. Multiple recensions are known for each of the Vedas.[131] Thus, states Witzel as well as Renou, in the 2nd millennium BCE, there was likely no canon of one broadly accepted Vedic texts, no Vedic “Scripture”, but only a canon of various texts accepted by each school. Some of these texts have survived, most lost or yet to be found. Rigveda that survives in modern times, for example, is in only one extremely well preserved school of Śåkalya, from a region called Videha, in modern north Bihar, south of Nepal.[133] The Vedic canon in its entirety consists of texts from all the various Vedic schools taken together.[132]