This extensive Hindu library also includes the epics of the Ramayana and Mahabharata.

13, 14. (a) According to one Hindu source, what is the Bhagavad Gita? (b) What do Sruti and Smriti mean, and what is the Manu Smriti?

¹³ According to Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda, founder of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness, “Bhagavad-gītā [part of the Mahabharata] is the supreme instruction of morality. The instructions of Bhagavad-gītā constitute the supreme process of religion and the supreme process of morality. . . . The last instruction of the Gītā is the last word of all morality and religion: surrender unto Kṛṣṇa [Krishna].”​—BG.