How many non indo european words were there in the rig veda?
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Rigveda (padapatha) manuscript in Devanagari, early 19th century. After a scribal benediction (śrīgaṇéśāyanamaḥ Au3m), the first line has the first pada, RV 1.1.1a (agniṃ iḷe puraḥ-hitaṃ yajñasya devaṃ ṛtvijaṃ). The pitch-accent is marked by underscores and vertical overscores in red.
The Rigveda (Sanskrit: ऋग्वेद ṛgveda, from ṛc"praise"[1] and veda "knowledge") is an ancient Indo-Aryan Indian collection of Vedic Sanskrithymns along with associated commentaries on liturgy, ritual and mystical exegesis. It is one of the four sacred canonical texts (śruti) of Hinduism known as the Vedas.[2][3]
The core text, known as the Rigveda Samhita, is a collection of 1,028 hymns (sūktas) in about 10,600 verses (called ṛc, eponymous of the name Rigveda), organized into ten books (maṇḍalas). It is one of the four canonical sacred texts (śruti) of Hinduism known as the Vedas.[2][4] In the eight books that were composed the earliest, the hymns are mostly praise of specific deities.[5] The younger books 1 and 10 in part also deal with philosophical or speculative questions,[6] the virtue of dāna (charity) in society[7] and other metaphysical issues in its hymns.[8]
The oldest layers of the Rigveda Samhita have a claim of being among the oldest extant texts in any Indo-European language, perhaps of similar age as certain Hittite texts.[9]Philological and linguistic evidence indicates that the bulk of the Rigveda Samhita was composed in the northwestern region of the Indian subcontinent, most likely between c. 1500 and 1200 BC,[10][11][12] although a wider approximation of c. 1700–1100 BC has also been given.[13][14][note 1] The initial codification of the Rigveda took place during the early Kuru kingdom (c. 1200–900 BC).
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.[19][20]
The associated material has been preserved from two shakhas or "schools", known as Śākalya and Bāṣkala. The school-specific commentaries are known as Brahmanas(Aitareya-brahmana and Kaushitaki-brahmana) Aranyakas (Aitareya-aranyaka and Kaushitaki-aranyaka), and Upanishads (partly excerpted from the Aranyakas: Bahvrca-brahmana-upanishad, Aitareya-upanishad, Samhita-upanishad, Kaushitaki-upanishad).
The Rigveda (Sanskrit: ऋग्वेद ṛgveda, from ṛc"praise"[1] and veda "knowledge") is an ancient Indo-Aryan Indian collection of Vedic Sanskrithymns along with associated commentaries on liturgy, ritual and mystical exegesis. It is one of the four sacred canonical texts (śruti) of Hinduism known as the Vedas.[2][3]
The core text, known as the Rigveda Samhita, is a collection of 1,028 hymns (sūktas) in about 10,600 verses (called ṛc, eponymous of the name Rigveda), organized into ten books (maṇḍalas). It is one of the four canonical sacred texts (śruti) of Hinduism known as the Vedas.[2][4] In the eight books that were composed the earliest, the hymns are mostly praise of specific deities.[5] The younger books 1 and 10 in part also deal with philosophical or speculative questions,[6] the virtue of dāna (charity) in society[7] and other metaphysical issues in its hymns.[8]
The oldest layers of the Rigveda Samhita have a claim of being among the oldest extant texts in any Indo-European language, perhaps of similar age as certain Hittite texts.[9]Philological and linguistic evidence indicates that the bulk of the Rigveda Samhita was composed in the northwestern region of the Indian subcontinent, most likely between c. 1500 and 1200 BC,[10][11][12] although a wider approximation of c. 1700–1100 BC has also been given.[13][14][note 1] The initial codification of the Rigveda took place during the early Kuru kingdom (c. 1200–900 BC).
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.[19][20]
The associated material has been preserved from two shakhas or "schools", known as Śākalya and Bāṣkala. The school-specific commentaries are known as Brahmanas(Aitareya-brahmana and Kaushitaki-brahmana) Aranyakas (Aitareya-aranyaka and Kaushitaki-aranyaka), and Upanishads (partly excerpted from the Aranyakas: Bahvrca-brahmana-upanishad, Aitareya-upanishad, Samhita-upanishad, Kaushitaki-upanishad).
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