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Rigveda

Also known as Rig Veda

The Rigveda is the oldest of the four Vedas, the sacred texts of Hinduism: a collection of 1,028 Sanskrit hymns arranged in ten books. Composed in north-western India roughly between 1500 and 1000 BCE and handed down orally with great precision, it praises gods such as Indra, Agni and Soma and names tribes such as the Bharatas and Purus. It is the earliest major source for Vedic religion and the Indo-Aryan languages.

Rigveda
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