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The world's largest religions and philosophies have each been founded by comparably extensive texts, some of which have come about through divine revelation, others through personal inspiration, and others without any supernatural or preternatural involvement.
By whichever way these texts were formed, each have held profound influence on the development of world civilisation and thought. This page provides a list of the world's longest religious and philosophical texts by word count of both ancient, modern and contemporary origin. The books in this list must be directly associated with a particular religion or philosophy and therefore, generally books on religion/philosophy or books about a religion or a philosophy are not included. Only books that are officially considered as part of the religion or philosophy's canon are included.
Text name | Word count | Author | Associated religion/philosophy | Period written | Nature of origin |
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Mahabharata | 1,800,000[1] | Vyasa | Hinduism | 400 BC | n/a |
Omnidoxy | 1,704,860 | Cometan | Astronism | 2015 – 2020 | Personal inspiration / Peternatural |
Core Omnidoxy | 1,231,950 | Cometan | Astronism | 2015 – 2020 | Personal inspiration / Preternatural |
The Holy Bible | 807,370 | Numerous: Matthew, Mark, Luke and John; Moses and other Old Testament prophets | Christianity | Old Testament: 1200 – 165 BC
New Testament: First Century |
Divine inspiration |
Peripheral Omnidoxy | 472,917 | Cometan | Astronism | 2015 – 2020 | Personal inspiration / Preternatural |
The Book of Mormon | 264,671 | Joseph Smith | Mormonism | 1830 | Divine revelation |
The Book of Common Prayer | 232,000 | Thomas Cranmer | Anglicanism | 1549 | n/a |
The Quran | 157,935 | dictated by Muhammad; compiled together by Muhammad's followers | Islam | 609 AD – 632 AD | Divine revelation |
Ramayana | 122,500 | Valmiki | Hinduism | 5th century BC | n/a |
The Torah | 100,000 | Moses | Judaism | 600 BC | Divine revelation |
The Tripitaka (Pāli Canon) |
90,000 |
Numerous compilers | Buddhism | 550 BC – 100 AD | n/a |
Rig Veda |
88,000 |
Vyasa | Hinduism | 1500 BC | n/a |
Nicomachean Ethics | 80,000 | Aristotle | Aristotelianism | 340 BC | n/a |
Kojiki | 78,000 | Ō no Yasumaro | Shinto | 712 AD | n/a |
The Kitab-I-Aqdas | 74,000 | Baha'u'llah | Bahá'í Faith | 1873 | Divine revelation |
Samaveda |
66,500 |
Vyasa | Hinduism | 1500 BC | n/a |
Avesta | 54,500 | Zoroaster | Zoroastrianism | 1500 – 1000 BC | Divine revelation |
The Republic | 51,500 | Plato | Platonism | 375 BC | n/a |
The Analects | 34,500 | Confucius | Confucianism | 500 BC | n/a |
Tao-Te-Ching | 11,890 | Laozi | Taoism | 4th century BC | n/a |