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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.


Rig-Veda British  
/ rɪɡˈveɪdə, -ˈviːdə /

noun

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

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Etymology

Origin of Rig-Veda

From the Sanskrit word ṛgveda


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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

The meaning of jaradashti in the Rig-Veda may be seen in the Sanskrit Dictionary of the Russian Academy, and no Sanskrit scholar would seriously think of translating the word by Zoroaster.

From Lectures on The Science of Language by Max Müller

Their first lisp, the first recorded stammer of Indo-European speech, is audible still in the Rig-Veda, a bundle of hymns tied together, four thousand years ago, for the greater glory of Fire.

From The Lords of the Ghostland A History of the Ideal by Edgar Saltus

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