1.32 of the Rigveda is a poem praising the deity Indra for his victory over the serpent Vritra. While this story is often referred to in the Rigveda,...
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The Rigveda or Rig Veda (Sanskrit: ऋग्वेद, IAST: ṛgveda, from ऋच्, "praise" and वेद, "knowledge") is an ancient Indian collection of Vedic Sanskrit hymns...
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rains, river flows, and war. Indra is the most referred deity in the Rigveda. He is celebrated for his powers based on his status as a god of order...
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cows, hero, you won the Soma,/You freed the seven streams to flow" (Rigveda 1.32.12). In another Rigvedic legend, the three-headed serpent Viśvarūpa,...
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states, "... in the Mahābhārata Vṛtra is the son of Danāyu, (and) the Ṛigveda (1.32.9) speaks of Vṛtra as the son of Danu." However, in books 2-7 of the...
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Chandra Das (1902), A Tibetan-English dictionary with Sanskrit synonyms, Bengal Secretariat Book Depôt Rigveda 1.32, translated by Ralph T. H. Griffith...
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ऋग्वेद: सूक्तं १.३२, Wikisource Rigveda Sanskrit text Hervey De Witt Griswold (1971). The Religion of the Ṛigveda. Motilal Banarsidass. p. 178. ISBN 978-81-208-0745-7...
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Danu (Hinduism) (section Rigveda)
"liquid" word is mostly neutral, but appears as feminine in RV 1.54. In the Rigveda (I.32.9), she is identified as the mother of Vritra, the asura slain...
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academic mainstream. The knowledge about the Aryans comes mostly from the Rigveda-samhita, i.e. the oldest layer of the Vedas, which was composed c. 1400–1000 BCE...
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literature. Namas-krita and related terms appear in the Hindu scripture Rigveda such as in the Vivaha Sukta, verse 10.85.22 in the sense of "worship, adore"...
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Sarasvati River (section Rigveda)
Sárasvatī-nadī́) is a mythologized and deified ancient river first mentioned in the Rigveda and later in Vedic and post-Vedic texts. It played an important role in...
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which consists of 1,875 verses. All but 75 verses have been taken from the Rigveda. Three recensions of the Samaveda have survived, and variant manuscripts...
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first Mandala ("book") of the Rigveda has 191 hymns. Together with Mandala 10, it forms the latest part of the Rigveda. Its composition likely dates to...
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word ‘progeny’. Ancient Hindu scriptures such as the Upanishads and the Rigveda outline the conception and evolution of the Brahminical Gotric system....
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his wife Lopamudra are the celebrated authors of hymns 1.165 to 1.191 in the Sanskrit text Rigveda and other Vedic literature. Agastya is considered to...
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Hindu cosmology (section Rigveda)
Press. pp. 121–122. ISBN 978-1-58243-009-6. Retrieved 15 December 2012. Henry White Wallis (1887). The Cosmology of the Ṛigveda: An Essay. Williams and Norgate...
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gods associated with medicine, health, dawn, and the sciences. In the Rigveda, they are described as youthful divine twin horsemen, travelling in a chariot...
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(Excellent Chariot) mantra chant is found in both Rigveda and Samaveda Samhitas, as follows, Rigveda form: Abhi tva sura nonumo 'dugdha iva dhenavah |...
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means "primary or first cause, linked cause"; in other contexts such as Rigveda 6.32.6, nidāna refers to the literal meaning of a rope or band that links...
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is a ritual drink of importance among the early Vedic Indo-Aryans. The Rigveda mentions it, particularly in the Soma Mandala. Gita mentions the drink...
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medicine, and the hunt. One translation of the name is 'the roarer'. In the Rigveda, Rudra is praised as the "mightiest of the mighty". Rudra means "who eradicates...
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composed the Rigveda. The Brahmana texts do also state that the Ikshvakus were a line of princes descended from the Purus. The Rigveda mentions that...
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having, wide-paced, strode out triply… — Rigveda 1.154.1, Translated by Jan Gonda The Vishnu Sukta 1.154 of Rigveda says that the first and second of Vishnu's...
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Publishing Platform. ISBN 978-1-4751-7250-8. Shah 2004, pp. 31–32. Brereton, Joel P.; Jamison, Stephanie W., eds. (2014). The Rigveda: The Earliest Religious...
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practices, including Vedic elements. Yoga-like practices are mentioned in the Rigveda and a number of early Upanishads, but systematic yoga concepts emerge during...
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India (redirect from ISO 3166-1:IN)
today is found in the hymns of the Rigveda. Preserved by an oral tradition that was resolutely vigilant, the Rigveda records the dawning of Hinduism in...
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in Rigveda. It is one of the two major sub-sects among Deshastha Brahmins. Similarly there are Yajurvedi (one who knows Yajurveda). As of 2014, 90.32% [citation...
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is associated with the planet as a Navagraha. Brihaspati appears in the Rigveda (pre-1000 BCE), such as in the dedications to him in the hymn 50 of Book...
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