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Satya

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Truth as vowed speech and reality in Indic ethics. Not truth as the bare English virtue alone, and not honesty as everyday frankness.

Vedic tradition

Satya appears in Vedic tradition.
The Ṛgveda names satya as truth and true speech bound to ṛta — what holds in hymn and vow. A named Vedic satya in that corpus, not the bare English truth mood alone and not later ethical-vow lists alone.
from Stephanie W. Jamison and Joel P. Brereton (translation) · The Rigveda, 2014 (this translation); hymns much older
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The Rigveda · Stephanie W. Jamison and Joel P. Brereton (translation)
Stephanie W. Jamison and Joel P. Brereton, The Rigveda: The Earliest Religious Poetry of India.