![]() ![]() Who exalted thereby his fame immortal up to heaven. I, Kakshivant, obtained also a hundred cows from my master Together with a hundred horses as a present have I received, Who assigned to me a thousand sacrifices,Ī hundred gold pieces from the fame-seeking king, No bad hymns am I offering by exerting my intellect Yet in terms of content it is not untypical. He calls it ‘the worst in the Rig Veda’ even its brahman composer seems to have had a premonition of failure. Ghosh of Calcutta University then goes on to cite an example from Mandala I. ![]() ![]() Although generally considered the most informative of the Vedic texts, its clues as to the lifestyle, organisation and aspirations of the arya are ‘submerged under a stupendous mass of dry and stereotyped hymnology dating back to the Indo-Iranian era, and held as a close preserve by a number of priestly families whose sole object in cherishing those hymns was to utilise them in their sacrificial cult’. The Rig Veda, earliest (perhaps C1100 BC) of the Vedic compositions, comprises ten mandala or ‘cycles’ of ritual hymns and liturgical directives. Such speculation is justifiable because of the unsatisfactory nature of Vedic literature as historical source material. ![]()
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