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Rig Veda or ‘Rigveda’ means praise/verse of knowledge. It is counted among the four canonical sacred texts of Hinduism known as the Vedas. The others are: Yajur Veda or Yahurveda, Sama Veda and Atharva Veda. The Rig Veda is the oldest of them and it consists of 1,028 Vedic Sanskrit hymns and 10,600 verses in all, organized into ten books. Here the books are translated into English and collected in one PDF-file. We have a lot of other Hindu scriptures here on the site, do a search. Here is the first hymn from the Rig Veda:
HYMN I. Agni.
1 I Laud Agni, the chosen Priest, God, minister of sacrifice,
The hotar, lavishest of wealth.
2 Worthy is Agni to be praised by living as by ancient seers.
He shall bring. hitherward the Gods.
3 Through Agni man obtaineth wealth, yea, plenty waxing day by day,
Most rich in heroes, glorious.
4 Agni, the perfect sacrifice which thou encompassest about
Verily goeth to the Gods.
5 May Agni, sapient-minded Priest, truthful, most gloriously great,
The God, come hither with the Gods.
6 Whatever blessing, Agni, thou wilt grant unto thy worshipper,
That, Angiras, is indeed thy truth.
7 To thee, dispeller of the night, O Agni, day by day with prayer
Bringing thee reverence, we come
8 Ruler of sacrifices, guard of Law eternal, radiant One,
Increasing in thine own abode.
9 Be to us easy of approach, even as a father to his son:
Agni, be with us for our weal.
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RigVeda – ऋग्वेद –
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What is Rigveda?
- The Rigveda (means Knowledge of praise) is an old Indian gathering of Vedic Sanskrit hymns. It is one of the four accepted consecrated writings of Hinduism known as the Vedas. The content is an accumulation of 1,028 hymns and 10,600 verses, sorted out into ten books (Mandalas). A decent arrangement of the dialect is as yet dark, and numerous songs as a result are muddled.
- The psalms are committed to Rigvedic divinities. For every god arrangement, the songs advance from longer to shorter ones; and the quantity of psalms per book increments. In the eight books that were made the most punctual, the psalms dominatingly talk about cosmology and acclaim gods. Books 1 and 10, which were included last, manage philosophical or theoretical inquiries regarding the beginning of the universe and the idea of god, the uprightness of philanthropy in the public arena and other magical issues in its hymns. Rigveda is one of the most established surviving writings in any Indo-European dialect. Philological and etymological confirmation demonstrates that the Rigveda was made in the northwestern district of the Indian subcontinent, doubtlessly between c. 1500 and 1200 BC-however a more extensive guess of c. 1700– 1100 BC has additionally been given.
- The underlying codification of the Rigveda occurred amid the early Kuru kingdom (c. 1200– 900 BCE). A portion of its verses keep on being recounted amid Hindu soul changing experiences festivities, for example, weddings and supplications, making it presumably the world’s most seasoned religious content in proceeded with utilize.
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YajurVeda – यजुर्वेद –
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What is YajurVeda?
- The Yajurveda (knowledge of composition mantra) is the Veda of exposition mantras. An old Vedic Sanskrit content, it is an arrangement of custom offering recipes that were said by a cleric while an individual performed custom activities, for example, those before the yajna fire. Yajurveda is one of the four Vedas, and one of the sacred texts of Hinduism. The correct century of Yajurveda’s sythesis is obscure, and evaluated by researchers.
- The Yajurveda is comprehensively assembled into two – the “black” (Krishna) Yajurveda and the “white” (Shukla) Yajurveda. The expression “dark” infers “the un-masterminded, hazy, diverse accumulation” of verses in Yajurveda, as opposed to the “white” which suggests the “all around orchestrated, clear” Yajurveda. The dark Yajurveda has made due in four recensions, while two recensions of white Yajurveda have made due into the advanced circumstances.
- The soonest and most antiquated layer of Yajurveda samhita incorporates around 1,875 verses, that are particular yet obtain and expand upon the establishment of verses in Rigveda.The center layer incorporates the Satapatha Brahmana, one of the biggest Brahmana messages in the Vedic gathering. The most youthful layer of Yajurveda content incorporates the biggest gathering of essential Upanishads, compelling to different schools of Hindu logic. These incorporate the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad, the Isha Upanishad, the Taittiriya Upanishad, the Katha Upanishad, the Shvetashvatara Upanishad and the Maitri Upanishad.
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SamaVeda – सामवेद –
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What is SamaVeda?
The Samaveda (knowledge of song) is the Veda of melodies and chants. It is an ancient Vedic Sanskrit language text, and part of the scriptures of Hinduism. One of the four Vedas, it is a liturgical text which consists of 1,549 verses. Except 75 verses rest have been taken from the Rigveda. Three recensions of the Samaveda have survived, and variant manuscripts of the Veda have been found in various parts of India.While its earliest parts are believed to date from as early as the Rigvedic period, the existing compilation dates from the post-Rigvedic Mantra period of Vedic Sanskrit, c. 1200 or 1000 BCE, but roughly contemporary with the Atharvaveda and the Yajurveda.
While its earliest parts are believed to date from as early as the Rigvedic period, the existing compilation dates from the post-Rigvedic Mantra period of Vedic Sanskrit, 1200 or 1000 BCE, but roughly contemporary with the Atharvaveda and the Yajurveda.
Embedded inside the Samaveda is the widely studied Chandogyan Upanishad and Kena Upanishad, considered as primary Upanishads and as influential on the six schools of Hindu philosophy, particularly the Vedanta school. The classical Indian music and dance tradition considers the chants and melodies in Samaveda as one of its roots.
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AtharvaVeda – अथर्ववेद –
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What is AtharvaVeda?
The Atharva Veda is the “knowledge storehouse of atharvaṇas, the procedures for everyday life”. The text is the fourth Veda, but has been a late addition to the Vedic scriptures of Hinduism.
The Atharvaveda is composed in Vedic Sanskrit, and it is a collection of 730 hymns with about 6,000 mantras divided into 20 books. About a sixth of the Atharvaveda text adapts verses from the Rigveda, and except for Books 15 and 16, the text is in poem form deploying a diversity of Vedic matters.
Two different recensions of the text – the Paippalada and the Saunakiya – have survived into modern times. Reliable manuscripts of the Paippalada edition were believed to have been lost, but a well-preserved version was discovered among a collection of palm leaf manuscripts in Odisha in 1957.
The Atharvaveda is sometimes called the “Veda of magical formulas”, an epithet declared to be incorrect by other scholars. In contrast to the ‘hieratic religion’ of the other three Vedas, the Atharvaveda is said to represent a ‘popular religion’, incorporating not only formulas for magic, but also the daily rituals for initiation into learning (upanayana), marriage and funerals. Royal rituals and the duties of the court priests are also included in the Atharvaveda.
The Atharvaveda was likely compiled as a Veda contemporaneously with Samaveda and Yajurveda, or about 1200 BC – 1000 BC.Along with the Samhita layer of text, the Atharvaveda includes a Brahmana text, and a final layer of the text that covers philosophical speculations. The latter layer of Atharvaveda text includes three primary Upanishads, influential to various schools of Hindu philosophy. These include the Mundaka Upanishad, the Mandukya Upanishad and the Prashna Upanishad.
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Introduction to the Commentry on the 4 Vedas
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From religionfacts.com: 'What are the Vedas?'
The most sacred scriptures of Hinduism are the Vedas ('Books of Knowledge'), a collection of texts written in Sanskrit from about 1200 BCE to 100 CE. As sruti, the Vedas are regarded as the absolute authority for religious knowledge and a test of Hindu orthodoxy (both Jains and Buddhists reject the Vedas). 'For Hindus, the Veda is a symbol of unchallenged authority and tradition.' {1}
Selections from the Vedas are still memorized and recited for religious merit today. Yet much of the religion presented in the Vedas is unknown today and plays little to no role in modern Hinduism.
As historical and religious literature often is, the text is written from the perspective of the most powerful groups, priests and warrior-kings. Scholars say it is therefore unlikely that it represents the totality of religious belief and practice in India in the first millennium BCE. This perspective is especially evident in the earlier parts of the Vedas, in which the primary concerns are war, rain, and dealing with the 'slaves,' or native inhabitants of India.
Initially, the Vedas consisted of four collections of mantras (Samhitas), each associated with a particular priest or aspect of ritual: Rig Veda (Wisdom of the Verses); Sama Veda (Wisdom of the Chants); Yajur Veda (Wisdom of the Sacrificial Formulas); and Atharva Veda (Wisdom of the Atharvan Priests).
Over the centuries, three kinds of additional literature were attached to each of the Samhitas: Brahmanas (discussions of the ritual); Aranyakas ('books studied in the forest'); and Upanishads (philosophical writings).
In these later texts, especially the Upanishads, the polytheism of the earlier Vedas has evolved into a pantheism focused on Brahman, the supreme reality of the universe. This concept remains a key feature of Hindu philosophy today.
- The Rig Veda
Composed as early as 1500 BC, the Rig Veda or Rg Veda ('Wisdom of the Verses') is the oldest of the four Vedic collections and one of the oldest surviving sacred texts in the world. The Rig Veda consists of 10,552 verses (collected into 10 books) of hymns and mantras used by the hotri priests.
The hymns of the Rig Veda focus on pleasing the principal gods Indra (war, wind and rain), Agni (the sacrificial fire), Surga (the sun) and Varuna (the cosmic order) through ritual sacrifices. Along with governing important matters of life such as rain, wind, fire and war, the Vedic gods also forgive wrongdoing (5.85.7) and mete out justice in the afterlife (1.97.1).
Deceased ancestors are able to influence the living (10.15.6), so they are also appeased with rituals (10.15.1-11). The afterlife of the Rig Veda is eternal conscious survival in the abode of Yama, the god of the dead (9.113.7-11). It is the gods, not karma, that are responsible for assuring justice in this life and the next (7.104).