Explain the Rig veda and the
atharva veda.
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Explanation:
Rig Veda mainly contains various hymns for praying to Vedic Gods such as Agni (Fire God), Indra (The lord of Heavens), Mitra, Varuna (Water God), Surya (Sun God) etc. These hymns are called Riks. Hence the Veda is called Rik-Veda or RigVeda. This writing consists of 10 writings.
The Atharvaveda is composed in Vedic Sanskrit, and it is a collection of 730 hymns hymns with about 6,000 mantras, divided into 20 books. The Atharvaveda says about the daily rituals for initiation into learning (upanayana), marriage and funerals.
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Rig Veda and Atharva Veda .....
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Rig Veda
The text is layered consisting of the Samhita, Brahmanas, Aranyakas and Upanishads.[note
The Rigveda Samhita is the core text, and is a collection of 10 books (maṇḍalas) with 1,028 hymns (sūktas) in about 10,600 verses (called ṛc, eponymous of the name Rigveda).
In the eight books – Books 2 through 9 – that were composed the earliest, the hymns predominantly discuss cosmology and praise deities.
The younger books (Books 1 and 10) in part also deal with philosophical or speculative questions,[5] virtues such as dāna (charity) in society,[6] questions about the origin of the universe and the nature of god,[7][8] and other metaphysical issues in their hymns.[9]
The Rigveda is the oldest known Vedic Sanskrit text.
Its early layers are one of the oldest extant texts in any Indo-European language.
The Philological and linguistic evidence indicates that the bulk of the Rigveda Samhita was composed in the northwestern region (Punjab) of the Indian subcontinent, most likely between c. 1500 and 1200 BC, although a wider approximation of c. 1700–1100 BC has also been given.
Some of its verses continue to be recited during Hindu rites of passage celebrations (such as weddings) and prayers, making it probably the world's oldest religious text in continued use.
Now, Atharva Veda.....
The Atharva Veda (Sanskrit: अथर्ववेद, Atharvaveda from atharvāṇas and veda, meaning "knowledge") is the "knowledge storehouse of atharvāṇas, the procedures for everyday life".
The text is the fourth Veda, but has been a late addition to the Vedic scriptures of Hinduism.
The Atharvaveda is composed in Vedic Sanskrit, and it is a collection of 730 hymns with about 6,000 mantras, divided into 20 books.
About a sixth of the Atharvaveda texts adapts verses from the Rigveda, and except for Books 15 and 16, the text is in poem form deploying a diversity of Vedic matters.
Two different recensions of the text – the Paippalāda and the Śaunakīya – have survived into modern times.
Reliable manuscripts of the Paippalada edition were believed to have been lost, but a well-preserved version was discovered among a collection of palm leaf manuscripts in Odisha in 1957.
The Atharvaveda is sometimes called the "Veda of magical formulas",[1] an epithet declared to be incorrect by other scholars.
In contrast to the 'hieratic religion' of the other three Vedas, the Atharvaveda is said to represent a 'popular religion', incorporating not only formulas for magic, but also the daily rituals for initiation into learning (upanayan), marriage and funerals.
Royal rituals and the duties of the court priests are also included in the Atharvaveda.[7]
The Atharvaveda was likely compiled as a Veda contemporaneously with Samveda and Yajurveda, or about 1200 BC - 1000 BC.
Along with the Samhita layer of text, the Atharvaveda includes a Brahmana text, and a final layer of the text that covers philosophical speculations.
The latter layer of Atharvaveda text includes three primary Upanishads, influential to various schools of Hindu philosophy.
These include the Mundaka Upanishad, the Mandukya Upanishad and the Prashna Upanishad.