In the dim twilight preceding the dawn of Indian literature the historical imagination can perceive the forms of Aryan warriors, the first Western conquerors of Hindustan, issuing from those passes in ...

The Rig Veda is a collection of Vedic Sanskrit hymns counted among the four Hindu religious texts known as the Vedas. The Rig Veda was likely composed between roughly 1700–1100 BCE, making it one of ...

Christians and Jews often see the Hebrew Bible as the world’s oldest book of continuously venerated scripture. But the Bible faces serious competition in this regard from India’s “Rigveda.” The term ...

Director Vivek Agnihotri’s bio-science film ‘The Vaccine War’ has released a hard rock version of the Rigveda hymn ‘Nasadiya Sukta’. Combining the traditional sonic aesthetics of mantras and its ...

THE Purusha-Sukta, recited as part of daily worship by Hindus, is a hymn from the tenth part (mandala) of the Rigveda. Literally it means the hymn of man. the purusha-sukta, recited as part of daily ...

The texts refer to the «darkness-ridden Sun», whose magic is destroyed by unknown «dark creatures». These are texts from the «Rigveda» — an ancient collection of religious hymns written in Sanskrit ...

Nikhil Chandwani is an author of 10 Books, TED(x) Speaker, and Founder- Writers' Rescue Centre. He was recently awarded the Rashtriya Gaurav Award in 2019 for excellence in social entrepreneurship.

THE Rigveda, a collection of Sanskrit hymns written around 3500 years ago, doesn’t contain much genetics. It does, however, have the first mention of India’s caste system, and now a genetics study ...