Question

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Answer the following questions briefly.
1. Who were the Aryans?
2. What is the Rigveda?
3. Differentiate between a Sabha and a Samiti.
4. Who were the Brahmans?
5. What were the leisure activities of the Aryans?
6. List the gods worshipped in Rig Vedic times?
7. List the four ashramas.
8. Name the gods worshipped in the Later Vedic Age
9. What does the Yajurveda contain?​

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Explanation:

1. Aryan, name originally given to a people who were said to speak an archaic Indo-European language and who were thought to have settled in prehistoric times in ancient Iran and the northern Indian subcontinent.

2. The Rigveda or Rig Veda (Sanskrit: ऋग्वेद ṛgveda, from ṛc "praise" and veda "knowledge") is an ancient Indian collection of Vedic Sanskrit hymns. It is one of the four sacred canonical texts (śruti) of Hinduism known as the Vedas. ... Its early layers are one of the oldest extant texts in any Indo-European language.