Scientific Facts In Rigveda

The Rig-Veda is the largest and most important text of the Vedic collection; it includes 1028 hymns and it is divided into ten books called mandalas. It is a difficult text, written in a very obscure style and filled with metaphors and allusions that are hard to understand for modern reader. The origin of the Vedas can be traced back as far as 1500 BCE, when a large group of nomads called the Aryans, coming from central Asia, crossed the HinduKush Mountains, migrating into the Indian subcontinent. This was a large migration and used to be seen as an invasion.

Aarav Singh (born on 19th March, 1970 in Patna, Bihar) is a teacher of philosophy. He had earlier taught at Patna University, Patna. He achieved his degrees M.A. (Philosophy) and PhD (philosophy and religion relationship) from BHU, Varanasi. He has specialized in Indian Philosophy, Hinduism, Jainism and Buddhism. He has authored more than five books and over twenty five research papers and articles published in national and international journals. He has travelled widely teaching Indian philosophy.

The Rig-Veda is the largest and most important text of the Vedic collection; it includes 1028 hymns and it is divided into ten books called mandalas. It is a difficult text, written in a very obscure style and filled with metaphors and allusions that are hard to understand for modern reader.

The origin of the Vedas can be traced back as far as 1500 BCE, when a large group of nomads called the Aryans, coming from central Asia, crossed the HinduKush Mountains, migrating into the Indian subcontinent. This was a large migration and used to be seen as an invasion. This invasion hypothesis, however, is not unanimously accepted by scholars today. All we know for certain, mainly through linguistic studies, is that the Aryan language gained ascendency over the local languages in the Indian sub-continent. The language of the Vedas is Sanskrit, an ancestor of most of the modern languages spoken today in South Asia.

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