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ऋग्वेद

Rigveda

The Veda of hymns (rich)

The oldest of the four Vedas — a vast collection of over a thousand suktas of praise to the devatas.

The Rigveda is traditionally held to be the oldest layer of Vedic knowledge, arranged in ten mandalas containing 1,028 suktas and around 10,600 mantras. Its hymns invoke Agni, Indra, Varuna, the Ashwins, Ushas and many devatas, and it preserves the Gayatri and the Purusha and Nasadiya Suktas. It is chiefly the work of the Hotr priest.

Structure

Ten mandalas · 1,028 suktas.

Famous hymns

Gayatri, Purusha Suktam, Nasadiya Sukta.

Priest

Recited by the Hotr.

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Purusha Suktam

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The supreme cosmogonic hymn of the Vedic canon preserved in the Rigveda and Taittiriya Aranyaka of the Krishna Yajurveda, revealing the cosmic sacrifice (Yajña) of the Supreme Being (Puruṣa), from whose cosmic limbs the entire universe, natural elements, Vedic hymns, and social fabric manifest.The paramount cosmogonic hymn of the Vedic canon preserved in the Rigveda, Shukla Yajurveda, and Krishna Yajurveda (Taittiriya Aranyaka), delineating the supreme sacrifice (Yajña) of the primordial Cosmic Being (Puruṣa), from whose transcendental self the entire visible and invisible universe, natural cycles, sacred meters, and interdependent social orders manifest.

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