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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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  • article: The Rig Veda/Mandala 10/Hymn 125 Devīsūkta Ṛgveda Online Rao, P. Venkata (1955): Ṛgveda Saṃhitā with Sāyaṇa's bhāṣya, Vol. 30. Śṛī Śāradā Press...
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    northern Bihar, between ca. 1500 BCE and ca. 500–400 BCE. The oldest text, the Rgveda, must have been more or less contemporary with the Mitanni texts of northern...
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  • especially against the Sāṃkhya theory." Ravi Prakash Arya and K. L. Joshi. Ṛgveda Saṃhitā: Sanskrit Text, English Translation, Notes & Index of Verses. (Parimal...
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    iron. The presence of the lineage of Ikshvaku—described as a raja in the Ṛgveda and an ancient hero in the Atharvaveda—to which Rama, Mahavira, and the...
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    especially the name of a celebrated Sanskrit grammarian, author of the Ṛgveda-Prātiśākhya, the Bṛhaddevatā, the Caraṇa-vyūha and six Anukramaṇīs (indices)...
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  • Scriptures None; influence from the Eddur, Lebor Gabála Érenn, Mabinogion, Ṛgveda, etc. Languages Welsh, English, Irish, Latin, Proto-Indo-European[citation...
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    Banarsidass Publishers. ISBN 8120805674. Arya, Ravi Prakash; Joshi, K. L. (2001). Ṛgveda Saṃhitā: Sanskrit Text, English Translation. Delhi: Parimal Publications...
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    Historical Tradition, Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, p. 131 Schmidt, H.P. Notes on Rgveda 7.18.5-10. Indica. Organ of the Heras Institute, Bombay. Vol.17, 1980, 41-47...
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    The Indra Hymns of the Ṛgveda. Brill Archive. pp. 4–5. ISBN 90-04-09139-4. Jan Gonda (1989). The Indra Hymns of the Ṛgveda. Brill Archive. p. 12. ISBN 90-04-09139-4...
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    of the Ṛgveda. Michael Witzel has assigned an approximate chronology to the strata of Vedic languages, arguing that the language of the Ṛgveda changed...
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    Books. Oberlies, Thomas (1998), Die Religion des Rgveda: Kompositionsanalyse der Soma-Hymnen des R̥gveda, Wien: Institut für Indologie der Universität Wien...
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    ISBN 81-208-0567-4. Arya, Ravi Prakash; Joshi, Kireet L., eds. (2001). Ṛgveda Saṃhitā. Parimal Sanskrit Series No. 45. Vol. Four volumes (2003 reprint)...
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    India, and an omnipotent creator god emerges only in the late hymns of the rgveda. Nor did the Vedic religion know a caste system, the burning of widows,...
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    p.57 For hymns, see Ṛgveda I.13.9, I.142.9, I.188.8, II.3.8, III.4.8, VII.2.8, X.70.8 and X.110.8 For mother of Pururavas, Ṛgveda X.95,18 "The hymns of...
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    arhita (past participle) "honoured, worshipped". The word is used in the Ṛgveda with this sense of "deserving". In pre-Buddhist India, the term arhat (denoting...
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    Freeman. ISBN 978-0-7167-1447-7. Oberlies, Thomas (1998). Die Religion des Rgveda (in German). Wien: Sammlung De Nobili. ISBN 978-3-900271-31-2. Padmanabhan...
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  • Arlington House, 1970. ISBN 0870000624 Gonda, J. (1959-12-31). Epithets in the Rgveda. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter. doi:10.1515/9783110908916. ISBN 978-3-11-090891-6...
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  • testified to by the preservation of the most ancient Indian religious text, the Ṛgveda (c. 1500 BCE). Example of a text with nine words in different pāṭhas is...
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    composition: it's almost entirely (except 75) made of stanzas taken from the Ṛgveda and rearranged with reference to their place in the Soma sacrifice. This...
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  • the Universe or Brahman. It is composed of ten riks of trishtup rhythm. Ṛgveda 10.121 Hiranyagarbha, Hiraṇyagarbha, Hiranya-garbha: 17 definitions, General...
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    pūrvaśikhā, and in English, a forelock Classification Pancha Dravida Veda Ṛgveda (Āśvalāyana recension) Yajurveda (Baudhāyana recension) Religions Hinduism...
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  • Pūru-led coalition, after which the initial compilation of hymns of the R̥gveda was carried out.[citation needed] After the battle, the Bharatas and other...
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    Pratishakhya (Sanskrit: प्रातिशाख्य prātiśākhya), also known as Parsada (pārṣada), are Vedic-era manuals devoted to the precise and consistent pronunciation...
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    University Press, ISBN 978-0-674-03059-6 Oberlies, T. (1998), Die Religion des Rgveda, Wien Olivelle, Patrick (1998), Upanis̥ads, Oxford University Press,...
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    Kim (December 1996), "Review of Subash Kak, The Astronomical Code of the Ṛgveda", Centaurus, 38 (4): 362–364, doi:10.1111/j.1600-0498.1996.tb00021.x, ISSN 0008-8994...
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    feminine form (found at the end of compounds) ending in ā, as mentioned in the ṛgveda Prātiśākhya. As a traditional Hindu unit of time, one kālá corresponds to...
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    hospitable," from the Vedic arya, "homey, the hospitable") but even in the Rgveda, arya denotes a cultural and linguistic boundary and not only a racial one...
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    Oxford University Press, page 96 (verse 2.2.4) Stephanie W. Jamison (2007). R̥gveda entre deux mondes. Collège de France. p. 25. ISBN 978-2-86803-074-0. Ralph...
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  • Griffith, Ralph Thomas Hotchkin; Shastri, Jagdish Lal (1973). The Hymns of the Ṛgveda. Motilal Banarsidass Publ. p. 192. ISBN 978-81-208-0046-5. Singhal, K. C;...
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