The Rigveda or Rig Veda (Sanskrit: ऋग्वेद, IAST: ṛgveda, from ऋच्, "praise" and वेद, "knowledge") is an ancient Indian collection of Vedic Sanskrit hymns...

Rigveda Wiki (Korean: 리그베다 위키) is a Korean Otaku wiki which started on March 1, 2007. As of July 17, 2013, it had more than 200,000 articles, making it...

literature and the oldest scriptures of Hinduism. There are four Vedas: the Rigveda, the Yajurveda, the Samaveda and the Atharvaveda. Each Veda has four subdivisions...

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...

tradition, and the one most mentioned in its scripture Rigveda. The fifth Mandala (Book 5) of the Rigveda is called the Atri Mandala in his honour, and the...

known as the Rudra Mantra or Tryambakam Mantra, is a verse (ṛc) of the Rigveda (RV 7.59.12). The ṛc is addressed to Tryambaka, "The Three-eyed One", an...

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...

gods associated with medicine, health, dawn, and the sciences. In the Rigveda, they are described as youthful divine twin horsemen, travelling in a chariot...

2015, pp. 63–66, 114. Rigveda 2.12 Rigveda 1.32, translated by Ralph T. H. Griffith Walter Slaje, Vájra. Zur Schleuderwaffe im Rigveda. (Conundrums in Indology...

other languages influenced by Sanskrit. The term occurs 133 times in the Rigveda, referring to oceans (real, mythical or figurative) or large bodies of...

05.00 PM Thanthrik Festivals (Poushtika Karmas) Rigveda Laksharchana In the month of Dhanu, Rigveda Laksharchana, under the auspices of thanthri and...

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...

the earth goddess, and together they are the archetypal parents in the Rigveda. Dyauṣ stems from Proto-Indo-Iranian *dyā́wš, from the Proto-Indo-European...

दनु, IAST: Danu) is a Hindu primordial goddess. She is mentioned in the Rigveda to be the mother of the eponymous race known as the danavas. The word Danu...

Rigveda. In later Hindu texts, he is described to be the king of Mahodayapuram, and also the father of Satyavati, the wife of Rcika. In the Rigveda Book...

Vaishvamitra, is a sage mentioned in Hindu literature. A number of hymns in Rigveda are composed by him. He is one of the sons of the sage Vishvamitra. Madhuchchhanda...

Rishis). Vasishtha is credited as the chief author of Mandala 7 of the Rigveda. Vasishtha and his family are mentioned in Rigvedic verse 10.167.4, other...

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...

gods, a classification in which no deity is stated to be omitted. In the Rigveda a number of hymns are addressed to these deities, including (according...

of Rigveda, the principal text of the historical Vedic religion of the Vedic period (1500–500 BCE). There are 1,028 hymns (sūkta) in the Rigveda. Most...

[ɐŋɡirɐ:]) was a Vedic rishi (sage) of Hinduism. He is described in the Rigveda as a teacher of divine knowledge, a mediator between men and gods, as well...

Rigvedadi Bhashya Bhumika (also known as Introduction to Vedas) is a book originally written in Hindi by Dayanand Saraswati, a nineteenth-century social...

of the Rigveda is a poem praising the deity Indra for his victory over the serpent Vritra. While this myth is often referred to in the Rigveda, hymn 1...

the Rigveda, provide significant insight into ancient Indian society. He and his family of students were the authors of the sixth book of the Rigveda. In...

became the mother of all deities. according to rigveda 2.27.7 aditi is referred as rajaputra girl in Rigvedas. According to the Shatapatha Brahmana (a commentary...

Buddhism. The earliest known mention of Saraswati as a goddess is in the Rigveda. She has remained significant as a goddess from the Vedic period through...

and showed the verses in Rigveda as a proof. Author C. Ramakrishna Rao says, "Madhva explained the Balitha Sukta in the Rigveda as referring to the three...

Visvakarman occurs five times in the tenth book of the Rigveda. The two hymns of the Rigveda identify Visvakarman as all-seeing, and having eyes, faces...

The Rigveda refers to a number of rivers located in the northwestern Indian subcontinent, from Gandhara to Kurukshetra. Identification of Rigvedic hydronyms...

fourfold Varna system is not yet recorded. The hymn Purusha Sukta to the Rigveda describes the symbolic creation of the four varna-s through cosmic sacrifice...