The name Bharatavarsha is also mentioned in
(a) Rig Veda ( )
(b) Sam Veda ( )
(c) Atharva Veda ( )
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The name Bharatavarsha is also mentioned in (a) Rig Veda.
- The word, “Bharatavarsha”, has been first mentioned in the first Veda that is the Rig Veda.
- It was in the “Battle of the Ten Kings”, in which the Bharata tribe, emerged victorious and settled in Kurukshetra.
- According to the popular story Mahabharata, it states that India was called "Bharatvarsha" after the king whose name was Bharata Chakravarti.
- Bharata Chakravarti was a legendary emperor and was the founder of Bharata Dynasty and an ancestor of the Pandavas and Kauravas.
- He was the only son of King Dushyanta of Hastinapur and Queen Sakuntala.
- Also, as a descendant of Kshatriya Varna, Bharata had conquered all of Greater India, that is why ancient India was named after him as “Bharatvarsha”.
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Answer:
The word "Bharatavarsha" was first mentioned in the first Veda which is the Rig Veda. It was in the "Battle of the Ten Kings" that the Bharata tribe was victorious and settled at Kurukshetra.
Explanation:
(a) Rig Veda
The Bharatas were a Vedic tribe mentioned in the Rigveda. The name Bharata was used for a group of people who lived in the northwest and who are mentioned in the Rigveda, the oldest composition in Sanskrit. It was later used for the country.
Vedic period
• It is the Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age period in Indian history when the Vedas were composed in the northern Indian subcontinent.
The associated culture was referred to as the Vedic civilization.
• The whole Earth was called Bharatvarsha, but especially the region which lay south to the Himalayas was called Bharatvarsha.
• Bharatvarsha was also famous
as Aryavarta means the land of the Aryans. Aryavarta and Bharats are mentioned in
The Vedas, many scriptures and the Mahabharata.
• The Bharatas were a Vedic tribe mentioned in the Rigveda.
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