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The Rigveda or Rig Veda (Sanskrit: ऋग्वेद, IAST: ṛgveda, from ऋच्, "praise" [2] and वेद, "knowledge") is an ancient Indian collection of Vedic Sanskrit hymns (sūktas). It is one of the four sacred canonical Hindu texts (śruti) known as the Vedas. [3][4] Only one Shakha of the many survive today, namely the Śakalya ...
Rigvedic geography. Identification of Rigvedic hydronyms has engaged multiple historians; it is the single most important way of establishing the geography and chronology of the early Vedic period. [1][2] Rivers with certain identifications stretch from eastern Afghanistan to the western Gangetic plain, clustering in the Punjab.
It played an important role in the Vedic religion, appearing in all but the fourth book of the Rigveda. As a physical river in the oldest texts of the Rigveda, it is described as a "great and holy river in north-western India," [2] but in the middle and late Rigvedic books, it is described as a small river ending in "a terminal lake ."
Jambudvīpa (Pali; Jambudīpa) is a name often used to describe the territory of Greater India in ancient Indian sources. The term is based on the concept of dvīpa, meaning "island" or "continent" in ancient Indian cosmogony. The term Jambudvipa was used by Ashoka to represent his realm in the third century BCE.
Atri's Eclipse is a total solar eclipse mentioned in the Indian text Rigaveda. It has been claimed by some modern astronomical scholars to be the earliest reference of the solar eclipse mentioned in any historical astronomy of the world. The claim for the earliest reference of the total solar eclipse was published in a paper by the Journal of ...
The oldest documents are all in poetic form; oldest and most important of all is the Rigveda (c. 1500 BC). Ancient Greek ( c. 750 –400 BC). Mycenaean Greek ( c. 1450 BC ) is the oldest recorded form, but its value is lessened by the limited material, restricted subject matter, and highly ambiguous writing system.
The Vedic period, or the Vedic age (c. 1500 – c. 500 BCE), is the period in the late Bronze Age and early Iron Age of the history of India when the Vedic literature, including the Vedas (c. 1500 –900 BCE), was composed in the northern Indian subcontinent, between the end of the urban Indus Valley Civilisation and a second urbanisation, which began in the central Indo-Gangetic Plain c. 600 BCE.
Only one version of the Rigveda is known to have survived into the modern era. [130] Several different versions of the Sama Veda and the Atharva Veda are known, and many different versions of the Yajur Veda have been found in different parts of South Asia. [143] The texts of the Upanishads discuss ideas akin to the heterodox sramana-traditions ...