The Rig Veda, a collection of sayings and hymns from various religious and philosophical schools, was compiled around 1500 B.C. Like nearly all religious texts, it mentions historical events.

The ancient Hindu spiritual text Rig Veda mentions a total solar eclipse that occurred roughly 6,000 years ago. Researchers say this is the oldest known reference to an eclipse in history. The Rig ...

THE FIRST three ‘adhyayas’ (chapters) of the first ‘mandala’ (book) of the Rig Veda comprising 40 ‘suktas’ (and 489 mantras) have been commented upon by Acharya Madhva in his work ...

Amid the Rig Veda's meticulously organised Mandalas, Anuvakas, Suktas and Riks, lies mentions of potentially the earliest occurrence of what the modern scientific world identifies as a solar eclipse.

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The Rig Veda is the foremost of all Sruti literature. It consists of 1,028 hymns with a total of 10,562 lines, which are described, in 10 books. A hymn has three basic parts. The first part is an ...

Astronomers have identified the oldest known reference to a total solar eclipse in the ancient Hindu text, the Rig Veda. This finding, dating back roughly 6,000 years, sheds new light on the ...

India News: In a rare honour, 30 Rig Veda manuscripts dating from 1800 to 1500 BC have been included in Unesco's Memory of the World Register.

With a view to examine the historical anomalies in existing beliefs about the origins of the Rig Veda, Delhi University’s Sanskrit department will organise a consultation meeting in September ...

Vallathol did not become blind. But the translation of Rig Veda, his master work, has almost gone out of the sight. It’s first edition, consisting four volumes, was published in 1955, but the ...