Rig-Veda

American  

[rig-vay-duh, -vee-duh] / rɪgˈveɪ də, -ˈvi də /

Or Rigveda

noun

Hinduism.

1. one of the Vedas, a collection of 1028 hymns, dating from not later than the second millennium b.c.

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Rig-Veda British  

/ rɪɡˈveɪdə, -ˈviːdə /

noun

1. a compilation of 1028 Hindu poems dating from 2000 _bc or earlier

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Other Word Forms

• Rigvedic
  adjective

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Etymology

Origin of Rig-Veda

From the Sanskrit word ṛgveda

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Example Sentences

See Examples For:

Rig-Veda

In the film, “I Do Not Know What It Is I Am Like,” the enigmatic title drawn from the Rig-Veda, the opening sequence conveys this sensation.

From New York Times ● Aug. 15, 2019

When family straits got too much for him Alcott retired to his room, plunged into the Rig-Veda or the Confucian Analects or Hermes Trismegistus.

From Time Magazine Archive

Dreams and a restlessness of the soul came to him, arising from the smoke of the sacrifices, emanating from the verses of the Rig-Veda, trickling through from the teachings of the old Brahmins.

From "Siddhartha" by Hermann Hesse

A thousand thanks for the dove which you sent me out of the ark of the Rig-Veda.

From Chips From A German Workshop. Vol. III. Essays on Literature, Biography, and Antiquities by F. Max (Friedrich Max) Müller

MITRA=the god said, in Rig-Veda, “to fix times of festivals.”

From The Fundamental Principles of Old and New World Civilizations by Zelia Nuttall

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