Term Papers on Breaking Down The (Rig) Vedas

Term Paper Title	Breaking Down The (Rig) Vedas
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Breaking Down the (Rig) Vedas

World History to 1500 (115)

October 1, 2004

     The Rig Veda is a collection of over 1000 hymns that contain mythology of the Hindu gods and is considered to be one of the fundamentals of the Hindu religion. While the Rig Veda is the oldest of the Vedas, there are three other Vedas. There is the Sama Veda, which is “the knowledge of chants”. There is also the Yajur Veda or “knowledge of rites”. The final Veda is the Athara Veda which represents the knowledge given by Athara who was a sage. These Vedas were passed down orally for many generations. When they were written down, they were first written in Vedic, which was an early form of Sanskrit. Around 500 BCE the Vedas were written down in the form that we have them today.

     The Aryans, who entered the Indus Valley as migrants around 1500 BCE, wrote the Rig Vedas. They wrote this Veda between 1300 and 1000 BCE. There may be other influences on these works though from other civilizations. This is because the Vedas were being developed before the Aryans began to arrive.

     Even though there are many Vedas written, the most important is the Rig, which contains over 1000 hymns aimed at the Gods. These hymns contain praises, blessings, sacrifices and curses. These hymns are the major way in which the Aryan people praised their Gods. As we have seen in class, this ...

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