India -- Religion
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ऋग्वेद Rigveda, Śaka 1682-1683, 1760-1761 C.E.
Item
Identifier: Or Ms 497.1-2
Scope and Contents
Astaka 5-8. Pada text. Written in Kedarghat in Benares (Varanasi) by Bahutula Bhikam Bhatta, saka 1682-3 (1760-1 CE). Copied for Taddini Raghunatha. The Rigveda is the oldest known Vedic Sanskrit text, probably dating from second half of the second millennium BCE. Originally transmitted orally, its early layers are among the oldest extant texts in any Indo-European language.
Dates:
Śaka 1682-1683; 1760-1761 C.E.