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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