Question
Download Solution PDFThe Rigveda includes more than a thousand of hymns, called:
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Detailed Solution
Download Solution PDFThe correct answer is Sukta.
Key Points
- There are four Vedas – the Rigveda, Samaveda, Yajurveda, and Atharvaveda.
- The oldest Veda is the Rigveda, composed about 3500 years ago.
- The Rigveda includes more than a thousand hymns, called sukta.
- These hymns are in praise of various gods and goddesses.
- Three gods are especially important: Agni, the god of fire; Indra, a warrior god; and Soma, a plant from which a special drink was prepared.
- These hymns were composed of sages (rishis).
- Priests taught students to recite and memorize each syllable, word, and sentence, bit by bit, with great care.
- Most of the hymns were composed, taught, and learned by men. A few were composed by women.
- The Rigveda is in old or Vedic Sanskrit, which is different from the Sanskrit we learn in school these days.
- The books we use are written and printed.
- The Rigveda was recited and heard rather than read.
- It was written down several centuries after it was first composed and printed less than 200 years ago.
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