The Rigveda – Oldest text
The Rigveda is an ancient Indian collection of Vedic Sanskrit hymns. It is one of the four canonical sacred texts of Hinduism known as the Vedas. The text is a collection of over 1,000 hymns and 10,600 verses, organized into 10 books. The hymns are dedicated to various deities, primarily the Vedic supreme god Indra and the goddess Vak. The Rigveda is one of the oldest extant texts in any Indo-European language, and it is thought to have been composed during the early to mid-2nd millennium BCE. The Rigveda is primarily a religious text, and it contains hymns, incantations, and …