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Definition of Rig-Veda
1. Noun. A Veda consisting of a collection of Hindu poems dating from before 2000 BC.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rig-Veda
Literary usage of Rig-Veda
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"The poetry of the Rig-Veda is neither popular nor primitive, as it has been
erroneously ... The Rig-Veda has come down to us in only one recension, ..."
2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"RIG VEDA, rig va'dii, the oldest of the four Vedas, and the oldest literary
monument of the Indo-European races. The term Veda is the ancient Hindu Sanskrit ..."
3. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1908)
"The eschatology of the Rig-Veda is comparatively simple, and resembles in its
... In the latest portion of the Rig-Veda, moreover, appear the chief hymns ..."
4. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"The precise time of composition of the Vedas cannot be determined, but it is
probable that the Rig Veda was in course of composition as early as 1200 Bc, ..."
5. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner (1897)
"HYMNS OF THE Rig-Veda FIRST HYMN ADDRESSED TO AGNI, THE SACRIFICIAL FIRE I WORSHIP
Agni, who is the priest of the house, the divine priest of the sacrifice, ..."
6. A History of Ancient Sanskrit Literature So Far as it Illustrates the by Friedrich Max Müller (1859)
"We cannot suppose that the hymns which are found in the Rig- veda, ... The principle
on which the Sanhita of the Rig- veda was made is different from that ..."
7. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"For the oldest of these, the Rig Veda, the estimates of competent scholars vary
from 4000 to 1000 BC— about 2000 BC being a conservative estimate. ..."
8. Library of the World's Best Literature: Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner (1902)
"Indian literature extends from about 1500 BC to 1500 AD The first five hundred
years go to the completion of the Rig-Veda Collection. ..."
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