Layers of this Veda
- Brahmana: Aitareya Brahmana, Martin Haug (1863), coming to this shelf.
- Upanishads: Aitareya and Kaushitaki Upanishads, F. Max Müller, Sacred Books of the East vol. 1 (1879), with the Sanskrit beside them.
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Rigvedaऋग्वेद · The Hymns of the Rigveda
The oldest of the four Vedas: 1028 hymns in ten books (mandalas), addressed to Agni, Indra, Soma, Varuna and the other gods. Each hymn is shown with the Sanskrit beside Ralph T. H. Griffith’s English translation of 1896.
Public domain. Griffith’s translation was published in 1889–92 and revised in 1896; Griffith died in 1906. The Sanskrit is the ancient text. Sanskrit is shown for 1028 of 1028 hymns; where a hymn has no Sanskrit page on Wikisource, the English stands alone and says so.
The ten mandalas
Mandala 1Book I · 191 hymns · Sanskrit and EnglishMandala 2Book II · 43 hymns · Sanskrit and EnglishMandala 3Book III · 62 hymns · Sanskrit and EnglishMandala 4Book IV · 58 hymns · Sanskrit and EnglishMandala 5Book V · 87 hymns · Sanskrit and EnglishMandala 6Book VI · 75 hymns · Sanskrit and EnglishMandala 7Book VII · 104 hymns · Sanskrit and EnglishMandala 8Book VIII · 103 hymns · Sanskrit and EnglishMandala 9Book IX · 114 hymns · Sanskrit and EnglishMandala 10Book X · 191 hymns · Sanskrit and English
How to read these pages
- References are Book.Hymn.Verse, for example 10.90.13 = Mandala 10, Hymn 90, verse 13.
- The Sanskrit and the English are paired hymn by hymn. Griffith numbers each verse; the Sanskrit ends each verse with ॥n॥.
- In a few hymns (for example 1.65–70) Griffith numbers fewer, longer verses than the Sanskrit, so verse numbers there do not match one to one.
- Hymn numbers are the standard ones. In Mandala 8 Griffith numbered the Vālakhilya hymns last; his own number is shown where it differs.
- Griffith left a few passages untranslated or in Latin as was usual in 1896; they are kept as printed.