Hinduism is typically taught through a historical lens. We are told that there was a Harappan period 4,000 years ago, followed by Vedic Period 3,000 years ago, followed by the Puranic Age, which began ...

The Rig Vedic hymns were composed over 3,000 years ago, most probably by children of men who migrated into India with horses from Central Asia, and married local women. The hymns mostly reveal the ...

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It is difficult to pin the origins of the Rig Veda to a particular date, though most scholars agree that it was composed in about 1500 BCE in an archaic form of Sanskrit in the region straddling both ...