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Hindu scriptures The Rigveda (Sanskrit ?????? ?gveda, a compound of ?c "praise, verse"[1] and veda "knowledge") is an ancient Indian sacred collection of Vedic Sanskrit hymns dedicated to the gods (devas). It is counted among the four canonical sacred texts (sruti) of Hinduism known as the Vedas.[2] Some of its verses are still recited as Hindu prayers, at religious functions and other occasions, putting it among the world's oldest religious texts in continued use. [3] It is one of the oldest texts of any Indo-European language. In 2007 Rigveda was acknowledged as an ancient documentation from India by UNESCO world heritage.[4] Philological and linguistic evidence indicate that the Rigveda was composed in the Sapta Sindhu (the Punjab), corresponding to the North-Western region of the Indian subcontinent, roughly between 1500-1000 BCE (the early Vedic period). There are strong linguistic and cultural similarities with the early Iranian Avesta, deriving from the Proto-Indo-Iranian times, often associated with the early Andronovo (Sintashta-Petrovka) culture of ca. 2200-1600 BCE. The surviving form of the Rigveda is based on an early Iron Age (c. 10th c. BCE) collection that established the core 'family books' (mandalas 2-7, ordered by author, deity and meter [5]) and a later redaction, co-eval with the redaction of the other Vedas, dating several centuries after the hymns were composed. This redaction also included some additions (contradicting the strict ordering scheme) and orthoepic changes to the Vedic Sanskrit such as the regularization of sandhi (termed orthoepische Diaskeuase by Oldenberg, 1888).
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