Hindu texts "Śruti" refers to the body of most authoritative, ancient religious texts, believed to be eternal knowledge authored neither by human nor divine agent but transmitted by sages ("rishis"). These comprise the central canon of Hinduism. It includes the four Vedas including its four types of embedded texts - the Samhitas, the Brahmanas, the Aranyakas and the early Upanishads. Of the "Shrutis" (Vedic corpus), the Upanishads alone are widely influential among Hindus, considered scriptures par excellence of Hinduism, and their central ideas have continued to influence its thoughts and traditions. The "Smriti" texts are a specific body of Hindu texts attributed
Glossary of ancient Roman religion laws, and science of Etruscan religion and cosmology was known as the "disciplina Etrusca". Divination was a particular feature of the "disciplina". The Etruscan texts on the "disciplina" that were known to the Romans are of three kinds: the "libri haruspicini" (on haruspicy), the "libri fulgurales" (lightning), and the "libri rituales" (ritual). Nigidius Figulus, the Late Republican scholar and praetor of 58 BC, was noted for his expertise in the "disciplina". Extant ancient sources on the "Etrusca disciplina" include Pliny the Elder, Seneca, Cicero, Johannes Lydus, Macrobius and Festus. The adjective "divus", feminine "diva", is usually translated as "divine." As