The Hymns of the Ṛg Veda

tr. Ralph T. H. Griffith · 1896 · English (from Sanskrit)
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About this book

The complete Ṛg Veda Saṃhitā — all 10 maṇḍalas, 1028 hymns — in Griffith’s English translation (2nd edition, 1896). The sanskritweb.net proofread 7-bit-ASCII edition is hosted here, hymns tagged [BB-HHH] (book–hymn).

Relevance to this project

The oldest text in the library and the strongest single witness to the system’s constants in their own idiom: the 12-spoked / 360-spoke year-wheel (RV 1.164), 720 sons, 7 metres, the 7 horses of Sūrya, the 27/28 nakṣatras, the Nāsadīya creation hymn (10.129) and the Puruṣa Sūkta (10.90).

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