The oldest religious text in the world date back thousands of years, though many religions were initially passed on through spoken word. These religious texts are some of the oldest in human history.

The Nasadiya Sukta, from the 10th mandala of the Rigveda, is often called the "Hymn of creation". Instead of giving us a detailed description of how the universe began, it marvels at the "mystery" of ...

Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 122, No. 2, Indic and Iranian Studies in Honor of Stanley Insler on His Sixty-Fifth Birthday (Apr. - Jun., 2002), pp. 311-317 (7 pages) One of the most ...

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.

Vedas are not just mantras that are chanted by priests in temples and during religious rituals and ceremonies. It is a medium to reach towards Self Realization and God Realization. Dr Jayanti Manohar ...

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 ...

Jawaharlal Nehru University will launch an endowment fund with the help of a Non-Residential Indian (NRI) professor, Madan Gopal Seth, to promote research activities in the study of the Rigveda and ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The metrical distribution of Rigvedic doublets like dyáus and diyáus is one of the foundations of Edgerton's theory of Proto-Indo-European ...