[nukkad] Rig Veda - 1

["Rohit Mansukhlal" <>]

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A general introduction to Rig Veda's volumes is necessary before embarking
upon to reveal their contents. Thus writes an Indian scholar of high repute.

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'' The Rig-Veda consists of 1028 hymns, comprising over ten thousand
verses. The hymns are divided into ten Mandalas or Books, and with
the exception of the first and last books, every one of the remaining eight
books contains hymns said to have been composed or rather proclaimed
by one Rishi, by which we may understand one family or line of teachers.
Thus the second book is by Gritsamada; the third is by Visvamitra; the
fourth is by Vamadeva; the fifth is by Atri; the sixth is by Bharadvaja; the
seventh is by Vasishtha; the eighth is by Kanva; and the ninth is by
Angiras. The first book contains 191 hymns, which, with scattered
exceptions,
are composed by fifteen Rishis; and the tenth book also contains 191 hymns,
which are mostly ascribed to fictitious authors.

The whole or the greater portion of the tenth book seems to have been the
production of a later period, but was thrown in and preserved with the body
of the older hymns.. The hymns of the Rig-Veda were handed down from
father to son or from teacher to pupil for centuries together, and it was in
a later age, in the Epic Period, that they were arranged and compiled.
By the close of this period, every verse, every word, and every syllable
of the Rig-Veda had been counted. The number of verses, as computed,
varies from 10,402 to 10,622; the number of words is 153,826 and there
are altogether 432,000 syllables. ''

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To be continued
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Rohit Zaveri

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