Rig Veda Book – Download in English Rig Veda or ‘Rigveda’ means praise/verse of knowledge. It is counted among the four canonical sacred texts of Hinduism known as the. The others are:, Sama Veda and Atharva Veda. The Rig Veda is the oldest of them and it consists of 1,028 Vedic and 10,600 verses in all, organized into ten books. Here the books are translated to English and collected in one PDF-file. Here is the first hymn from the Rig Veda: HYMN I. 1 I Laud Agni, the chosen Priest, God, minister of sacrifice, The hotar, lavishest of wealth.

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2 Worthy is Agni to be praised by living as by ancient seers. He shall bring. Hitherward the Gods.

3 Through Agni man obtaineth wealth, yea, plenty waxing day by day, Most rich in heroes, glorious. 4 Agni, the perfect sacrifice which thou encompassest about Verily goeth to the Gods. 5 May Agni, sapient-minded Priest, truthful, most gloriously great, The God, come hither with the Gods. 6 Whatever blessing, Agni, thou wilt grant unto thy worshipper, That, Angiras, is indeed thy truth. 7 To thee, dispeller of the night, O Agni, day by day with prayer Bringing thee reverence, we come 8 Ruler of sacrifices, guard of Law eternal, radiant One, Increasing in thine own abode.

9 Be to us easy of approach, even as a father to his son: Agni, be with us for our weal. I am, excited at the prospect of reading this holy script.

I am almost completed with the Gita. I was excellent, so good that I am encouraged to continue with my spiritual path. Hindus, who have children, young, consider this as a father, who knows that our holy scripts has all the required prayers that needs to be done for a free path for our children. I was not afforded that opportunity, even though my father was a hindu priest.

Thank Care Navi Pather. vijay kumar February 27th, 2014 @ 8:18 am. Ohm Namo Narayanaya Namo, My friends,means all living beings. Hindu (Indus Civilization) or religion is the oldest religion in this world which was scientifically proved by the world by known scholars,scientist and historians. Hindu religion consist of merely 33000 thousand god and godess or beyond. According to Hindu Religion we Consist Lord Shiva as Main God and Lord Skathi as Main Godess and the Trimurtis as Bhrama, Vishnu and Rudra as their wives as Saraswathi, Lekshmi and Pravathy.

We have scriptures as Vedas consist of four as Rig, Sama, Yajur, Atharva Vedas And also consist of Upavedas, Vedaganas, Upanished, Smirtis, Puranas, Ithias etc My only request to all is just imagine who i am, where i am, who makes my body art and beyond. Rajasiva February 28th, 2015 @ 12:38 pm.

It is difficult to say when the earliest portions of the Vedas came into existence, but it seems clear they are among the very earliest written wisdom documents produced humans. As the ancient Hindus seldom kept any historical record of their religious, literary and political realization, it is difficult to determine the period of the Vedas with precision. Historians provide us many guesses but none are guaranteed to be precise. It is thought, though, that the earliest Vegas may date back to roughly 1700 BCE—the late.

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The Rig-Vedic ‘samhita’ or collection of mantras consists of 1,017 hymns or ‘suktas’, covering about 10,600 stanzas, divided into eight ‘astakas,’ each having eight ‘adhayayas’ or chapters, which are sub-divided into various groups. The hymns are the work of many authors, or seers, called ‘rishis.’ There are seven primary seers identified: Atri, Kanwa, Vashistha, Vishwamitra, Jamadagni, Gotama and Bharadwaja. The rig Veda accounts in detail the social, religious, political and economic background of the Rig-Vedic civilization. Even though monotheism characterizes some of the hymns of Rig Veda, naturalistic polytheism and monism can be discerned in the religion of the hymns of the Rig Veda.