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Dating and historical context
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Reception in Hinduism
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- Chapters
- 10 mandalas
- Language
- Vedic Sanskrit
- Period
- c. 1500–1000 BCE[note 1] (Vedic period)
- Religion
- Historical Vedic religion Hinduism
- Verses
- 10,552 mantras
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Overview
- Sanskrit Sanskrit language
- IAST
- Ancient Indian
- Collection Miscellany
- Vedic Sanskrit
- Hymns Hymn
- Hindu texts
- Śruti
- Vedas
- Shakha
- Śakalya Shakala Shakha
- Indo-European language
- Methods of memorisation Indian mathematics
- Philological
- Linguistic Historical linguistics
- Indian subcontinent
- Rigvedic rivers
- Cosmology
- Gods Deity
- Dāna
- Iranian Iran
- Greek language
- Gathas Gatha (Zoroaster)
- Avestan
- Iliad
- Homer
- Proto-Indo-European
- Rites of passage Sanskara (rite of passage)
- Weddings Wedding
- Religious text
Dating and historical context
- Indo-Aryan Old Indo-Aryan
- Indo-Iranian Proto-Indo-Iranian
- Mitanni
- Afghanistan
- Persian Persian language
- Sanskrit
- Helmand Helmand Province
- Arghandab Arghandab District, Kandahar
- Haryana
- Bronze Age
- Michael Witzel
- Kuru Kuru (India)
- Asko Parpola
- Western Western world
- Rudolf Roth
- Vedic religion Historical Vedic religion
- Early Iranian Early Iranian languages
- Avesta
- Proto-Indo-Iranian Proto-Indo-Iranian language
- Andronovo culture
- Cattle
- Horse racing
- Caste system
- Divine Divinity
- Indrani
- Apsaras Apsara
- Urvasi Urvashi
- Yami Yamuna in Hinduism
- Lopāmudrā Lopamudra
- Dowry
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- Bharata Bharatas (tribe)
- Uttar Pradesh
- Battle of the Ten Kings
- Sudās Sudas
- Kuru kingdom
- Vedic chant
- Sandhi
- Iron Age Iron Age India
- Vedas Veda
- Orthoepic
- Regularization Regularization (linguistics)
- Pausal Pausa
- Samhitapatha
- Pratisakhya
- Oral tradition
- Compounds Compound word
- Stems Word stem
- Scholarly tradition Vyākaraṇa
- Morphology Morphology (linguistics)
- Phonetics
- Nepal
- Gupta Empire
- Śākalya Shakalya
- Vālakhilya Valakhilya
- Khilani
- Shatapatha Brahmana
- Pariśiṣṭa
- Śaṅkhāyana Sankhyayana
- Śākala Śākala Shākha
- Birch bark Birch bark manuscript
Contents
Reception in Hinduism
- Shruti
- Divine revelation
- Apauruṣeyā
- Mimamsa
- Brāhmana Brahmanas
- Yaska
- Lexicographer Lexicography
- Nirukta
- Puranic Hinduism
- Mystical Mysticism
- Sound symbolism
- Paila Paila (Rishi)
- Madhvacharya
- Sāyana Sayana
- H.H. Wilson
- Sringeri Sringeri Sharada Peetham
- Gupta period
- Udgitha Udgatr
- Venkata-Madhava
- Mudgala Mudgala Purana
- Swami Dayananda Saraswati
- Arya Samaj
- Sri Aurobindo
- Sri Aurobindo Ashram
- Carnatic music
- Hindus Hindu
- Louis Renou
Translations
- Rudolf von Roth
- William Dwight Whitney
- Theodor Benfey
- John Muir John Muir (indologist)
- Edward Vernon Arnold
- Friedrich August Rosen
- Colebrooke Henry Thomas Colebrooke
- H. H. Wilson
- Karl Friedrich Geldner
- Wendy Doniger
- Metre Metre (poetry)
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Important terminology
hymns text vedic 10 also first mandala books bce agni verses sanskrit book vedas tradition one indra early rigvedic texts
Entity relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples
Extracted RDF-like relationships with confidence and source. The table includes structured facts and lower-confidence contextual relations.| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rigveda | Chapters | 10 mandalas | 1.00 | infobox |
| Rigveda | Language | Vedic Sanskrit | 1.00 | infobox |
| Rigveda | Period | c. 1500–1000 BCE[note 1] (Vedic period) | 1.00 | infobox |
| Rigveda | Religion | Historical Vedic religion Hinduism | 1.00 | infobox |
| Rigveda | Verses | 10,552 mantras | 1.00 | infobox |
| Rigveda | is a | oldest known Vedic Sanskrit text | 0.90 | text |
| Rigveda | is a | largest of the four Vedas | 0.90 | text |
| dāna | instance of | virtues | 0.80 | text |
| Varuna | instance of | which also mention the Vedic gods | 0.80 | text |
| Mitra | instance of | which also mention the Vedic gods | 0.80 | text |
| Indra | instance of | which also mention the Vedic gods | 0.80 | text |
| cattle raising | instance of | Only hints | 0.80 | text |
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