A new study challenges the long-held belief that Vedic culture was isolated to India. Research reveals a musical link between the Rig Veda and a 3,000-year-old hymn from the Mediterranean, ...

The Rig Veda has over a thousand hymns (sukta) that are arranged in ten chapters (mandala). The first and the tenth mandalas have precisely 191 hymns, indicating that the arrangement of hymns is not ...

The Rig Vedic hymns were composed over 3,000 years ago, most probably by children of men who migrated into India with horses from Central Asia, and married local women. The hymns mostly reveal the ...

For centuries, the Vedic civilization has been regarded as unique to India, based deeply in the subcontinent, which helped to give shape to its spiritual, philosophical, and cultural identity. The Rig ...