Correct Answer - Option 2 : Sanskrit
Rig Veda is an ancient Indian collection of Vedic Sanskrit hymns. It is one of the four sacred canonical texts of Hinduism known as the Vedas. The Aryans prepared a collection of hymns known as Rigveda.
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Archaeologists find out about the past in Rigveda.
- Some of the hymns in the Rigveda are in the form of dialogues.
- It is the main source of information about Vedic culture, which gives us information about the religious, social, and economic life of the people.
- The Rigveda is composed in Vedic Sanskrit, and hence it is not composed in Prakrit.
- It was written down several -centuries after it was first composed and printed less than 200 years ago.
- The oldest Veda is the Rigveda, composed about 3500 years ago. Its composition year is not correctly known and hence, it was calculated approximately.
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The Rigveda Samhita is the core text and is a collection of 10 books (mandalas) with 1,028 hymns (suktas) in about 10,600 verses.
- These hymns were composed by 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 learnt by men. A few were composed by women.
- Some of the hymns in the Rigveda are in the form of dialogues. This is part of one such hymn, a dialogue between a sage named Vishvamitra, and two rivers, (Beas and Sutlej) that were worshipped as goddesses.
