1450–1350 BCE), which also mention the Vedic gods such as Varuna, Mitra and Indra. A reasonable date close to that of the composition of the core of the Rigveda is that of the Mitanni documents of northern Syria and Iraq (c. Being composed in an early Indo-Aryan language, the hymns must post-date the Indo-Iranian separation, dated to roughly 2000 BCE. Philological estimates tend to date the bulk of the text to the second half of the second millennium. The dating proposals so far are all inferred from the style and the content within the hymns themselves. DatingĪccording to Jamison and Brereton, in their 2014 translation of the Rigveda, the dating of this text "has been and is likely to remain a matter of contention and reconsideration". Ī map of tribes and rivers mentioned in the Rigveda. Some of its verses continue to be recited during Hindu rites of passage celebrations (such as weddings) and prayers, making it probably the world's oldest religious text in continued use. The more recent books (Books 1 and 10) in part also deal with philosophical or speculative questions, virtues such as dāna (charity) in society, questions about the origin of the universe and the nature of the divine, and other metaphysical issues in their hymns. In the eight books – Books 2 through 9 – that were composed the earliest, the hymns predominantly discuss cosmology, rites, rituals and praise deities. The Rigveda Samhita is the core text, and is a collection of 10 books ( maṇḍalas) with 1,028 hymns ( sūktas) in about 10,600 verses (called ṛc, eponymous of the name Rigveda). The text is layered consisting of the Samhita, Brahmanas, Aranyakas and Upanishads. 15 BCE, although a wider approximation of c. The philological and linguistic evidence indicates that the bulk of the Rigveda Samhita was composed in the northwestern region (see Rigvedic rivers) of the Indian subcontinent, most likely between c. The sounds and texts of the Rigveda have been orally transmitted since the 2nd millennium BCE.
Its early layers are one of the oldest extant texts in any Indo-European language. The Rigveda is the oldest known Vedic Sanskrit text. It is one of the four sacred canonical Hindu texts ( śruti) known as the Vedas.
The Rigveda or Rig Veda ( Sanskrit: ऋग्वेद ṛgveda, from ṛc "praise" and veda "knowledge") is an ancient Indian collection of Vedic Sanskrit hymns ( suktas). The pitch-accent is marked by underscores and vertical overscores in red. After a scribal benediction ( śrīgaṇéśāyanamaḥ Au3m), the first line has the first pada, RV 1.1.1a ( agniṃ iḷe puraḥ-hitaṃ yajñasya devaṃ ṛtvijaṃ). Rigveda ( padapatha) manuscript in Devanagari, early 19th century.
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