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The oldest literary monument, the Rig Veda is about _______ years old.
1. 100 A. D.
2. 100 B. C.
3. 2000 B. C.
4. 2000 A. D.

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Correct Answer - Option 3 : 2000 B. C.

You may have heard about the Vedas. There are four of them – the Rigveda, Samaveda, Yajurveda, and Atharvaveda. The oldest Veda is the Rigveda, composed about 3500 years ago.

  • The Rigveda includes more than a thousand hymns, called sukta or “well-said”. These hymns are in praise of various gods and goddesses.
  • Three gods are especially important: Agni, the god of fire; Indra, a warrior god; and Soma, a plant from which a special drink was prepared.
  • These hymns were composed of sages (rishis). Priests taught students to recite and memorize each syllable, word, and sentence, bit by bit, with great care. Most of the hymns were composed, taught, and learned by men. A few were composed by women.
  • The Rigveda is in old or Vedic Sanskrit, which is different from the Sanskrit you learn in school these days. 
  • This Rigveda, written on birch bark, was found in Kashmir. About 150 years ago, it was used to prepare one of the earliest printed texts of the Rigveda, as well as an English translation. It is now preserved in a library in Pune, Maharashtra.

 

BC, we have seen stands for ‘Before Christ.’ You will sometimes find AD before dates. This stands for two Latin words, ‘Anno Domini’, meaning ‘in the year of the Lord’ (i.e. Christ).

  • So 2012 can also be written as AD 2012.
  • Sometimes CE is used instead of AD and BCE instead of BC. The letters CE stand for ‘Common Era’ and BCE for ‘Before Common Era’. We use these terms because the Christian Era is now used in most countries of the world. 
  • So that 3500 BC - 2021 AD = 1479 BC (Rigvedic age).

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