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"Your ancient home, your auspicious friendship, O Heroes, your wealth is on the banks of the Jahnavi."
Rigveda“As in its original language, we see the roots and shoots of the langu — Rigveda
"“As in its original language, we see the roots and shoots of the languages of Greek and Latin, of Celt, Teuton and Slavonian, so the deities, the myths and the religious beliefs and practices of the Veda throw a flood of light upon the religions of all European countries before the introduction of Christianity. As the science of comparative philology could hardly have existed without the study of Sanskrit, so the comparative history of the religions of the world would have been impossible without the study of the Veda.”"
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The Rigveda or Rig Veda is an ancient Indian collection of Vedic Sanskrit hymns (suktas) It is one of the four sacred canonical Hindu texts (śruti) known as the Vedas Only one Shakha of the many survive today, namely the Śakalya Shakha Much of the contents contained in the remaining Shakhas are now lost or are not available in the public forum
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"Max Mullers dating of the Veda illustrates the arbitrariness involved in the production of theories that are then propagated as "facts" in generations of schoolbooks. Muller, as I have noted, was fully aware of the arbitrary nature of his calculations (which, as Goldstucker pointed out, were based on a "ghost story" written in the twelfth century C.E.): "I ... have repeatedly dwelt on the hypothetical character of the dates" (1892, xiv). As Whitney noted, however: "We have already more than once seen it stated that Muller has ascertained the date of the Vedas to be 1200-1000 B.C." ([1874] 1987, 78). Winternitz also objected that "it became a habit . . . to say that Max Muller had proved 1200-1000 B.C. as the date of the Rg Veda. . . . Strange to say it has been quite forgotten on what a precarious footing [this opinion] stood" ([1907] 1962, 256)."
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