One of the four Vedas, the original revealed scriptures. It records hymns that glorify the demigods and forces of nature who embody the energies of the Supreme Lord.

India's first religious text, and one of the four vedas; essentially a product of Indo-Aryan thought.

Chief Vedic hymn.

'Royal Knowledge', Veda of chant, one of the four Vedas, the major and oldest Aryan Hindu scripture

the oldest of the Vedas (see Veda).

Veda from which Saman, and Yajur are almost exclusively derived. It consists of 1017 hymns or with eleven additional hymns called Valakhilyas of an ... more

Rg or Rc Veda The first scripture of Hinduism, containing spiritual and scientific knowledge.

First of the oldest four Hindu scriptures

Oldest of the four Veda Samhitas (collections): Rig, Sama, Yajur and Atharva. Organized into ten mandalas (group patterns) of salutary and prayerful hymns, the Rig portrays a monastic Supreme Being-as-Cause-and-Lord-of-all cosmology, describes a pattern of dharma towards righteous and prosperous living in tune with the Gods. This scripture also details yogic disciplines leading to realization of the Absolute.

One of the four main Vedic Scriptures

the oldest and most well-known of the Vedas. Veda means "sacred knowledge;" Rig Veda means "sacred knowledge of hymns and praise."