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	The Sampradaya Sun - Independent Vaisnava News - Feature Stories - March 2007
		By the end of Rigvedic period this process had resulted in rather precise codification of particular brahmanic qualities and duties, which were based on their personal abilities and skills.
		However, most of the modern researchers consider that Rigvedic brahmans, like other Rigvedic realities, may not be characterized on the basis of more recent sources, as the former may be of very big time difference from the latter.
		By the end of Rigvedic times that process has led to rather precise codification of particular brahmanic qualities and duties based on their personal abilities and skills.
	harekrsna.com /sun/features/03-07/features590.htm (2110 words)

	Knowledge of Planets in the Third Millennium BC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Since the bulk of the Rigvedic hymns are believed to date much before this epoch, we judge its astronomy as belonging to the third millennium BC.
		Vishnu is the youger brother of Indra in the Rigvedic era; and Indra is sometimes identified with the sun.
		The literature that followed the Rigvedic age was at first concerned more with the ritual related to the earlier astronomy of the Vedic age.
	subhashkak.voiceofdharma.com /articles/plan.htm (3024 words)

	On the Identity and Chronology of the Rigvedic River Sarasvati
		While the identification of the Sarasvati of the later texts with the present-day Ghaggar is retained, arguments are given in support of the identification of the original Sarasvati with the Helmand in south Afghanistan, having the original Yamuna and Ganga as its tributaries.
		At the current level of scholarship the Rigvedic and the pre-Iron Age archaeological traditions remain mutually exclusive; it is not possible to place the two in a self-consistent spatial and temporal context.
		We identify the Rigvedic Sarayu with its homonym the Hari-rud of north Afghanistan.
	www.class.uidaho.edu /ngier/306/contrasarav.htm (4286 words)

	Yoga Meditation Prayer Information
		Rigvedic: The Rigveda is by far the most archaic of the Vedic texts preserved, and it retains many common Indo-Iranian elements, both in language and in content, that are not present in any other Vedic texts.
		Therefore, it is difficult to define the precise beginning of the "Rigvedic period", as it emerges seamlessly from the era preceding it.
		Rig Vedic society was characterized by a rural lifestyle, with cattle rearing being the chief occupation.
	www.yogameditationprayer.sprinko.com /index.php?title=Vedic_civilization (2165 words)

	Yoga Meditation Prayer Information
		Geography of the Rigveda; the extent of the Swat and Cemetery H cultures are indicated.
		Identification of Rigvedic rivers is the single most important way of establishing the geography of the early Vedic civilization.
		This would also negate the theory that the centre of rigvedic culture moved from the west to the east and it would also mean that the rigvedic culture encompassed a much larger area.
	www.yogameditationprayer.sprinko.com /index.php?title=Anitabha (603 words)

	The Aryans presented in Civilization section
		The earliest history of the Aryans in India is called the Rigvedic Period (1700-1000 BC) after the religious praise poems that are the oldest pieces of literature in India.
		By the end of the Rigvedic period, social class had settled into four rigid castes: the caturvarnas, or “four colors.” At the top of the [I]caturvarnas[/I] were the priests, or Brahmans.
		While the [I]Rig Veda[/I] represents the most primitive religion of the Aryans during the Rigvedic Period, the religion of the Later Vedic period is dominated by the Brahmanas, or priestly book, which was composed sometime between 1000 and 850 BC.
	www.newsfinder.org /site/comments/the_aryans (1471 words)

	Religious Experience and Religious Languages
		The Rigvedic model is based on a methodology of context (or intentionality) analysis, and the recognition that language is context-dependent.
		The Rigvedic model, however, reserves the term "religious experience" to a Sacrificial act which "does away with" the gods, an act conveyed in what I have called the language of Images and Sacrifice.
		Or, to use the Rigvedic image, a spider's web is her living space, just as much a part of her "self" as is her physical organism.
	www.infinityfoundation.com /mandala/i_es/i_es_denic_religious.htm (5239 words)

	Archaeoastronomy and Literature (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Sarasvatı, the mightiest river of the Rigvedic era which ran down to the sea during that period, is the same as the Ghaggar-Hakra.
		Since there existed flourishing settlements on the banks of the river prior to about 1900 B.Cand the fact that we see small settlements on the dry bed which date to the middle of the second millennium B.C.15, it is clear that the river dried up around 1900 B.C., perhaps due to a major tectonic upheavel.
		Sarasvatı f lowing to the sea, the only conclusion open to us is that the Rigvedic era should be considered to be prior to c.
	subhashkak.voiceofdharma.com /articles/science.htm (2858 words)

	Rigveda - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Being a polemic against mainstream scholarship, this is in diametral opposition to views in mainstream historical linguistics, and supports the controversial Out of India theory, which assumes a date as late as 3000 BC for the age of late Proto-Indo-European itself.
		The Rigvedic view is seen to consider the universe to be infinite in size, dividing knowledge into two categories: lower (related to objects, beset with paradoxes) and higher (related to the perceiving subject, free of paradoxes).
		Bal Gangadhar Tilak, also based on astronomical alignments in the Rigveda, in his "The Orion" (1893) claimed presence of the Rigvedic culture in India in the 4th millennium BC, and in his "Arctic Home in the Vedas" (1903) even argued that the Aryans originated near the North Pole and came south during the Ice Age.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rigveda (3183 words)

	The Geography of the Rigveda (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		A second, and slightly less logical, procedure, would be to automatically assume that the Rigvedic rivers originally bore all the three names, since the oldest recorded occurence of the three names is in the Rigveda.
		JahnAvI is clearly the earlier Rigvedic form of the later word JAhnAvI: the former word is not found after the Rigveda, and the latter word is not found in the Rigveda.
		Hence, the fact that the ritual use of Soma formed such an integral part of the Rigvedic religion in every period of the text (and that this feature is shared with the Iranians) proves that the Vedic Aryans entered India from the northwest, bringing the Soma plant and cult with them.
	www.tri-murti.com /ancientindia/rigHistory/ch4.htm (7834 words)

	History- Rigvedic literature speaks on Indian handicrafts, Indian Handicrafts, Indian Gems & Jewellery, Indian ...
		The Rigvedic literature being religion based describes mainly such objects of art and crafts as were directly or indirectly associated with the religious rituals.
		The general term used for pot in the Rigvedic literature is Patra.
		It soon acquired a generic connotation and began to be used for pots of all specifications.
	handicraft.indiamart.com /history/rigvedic.html (283 words)

	New Light on Ancient India by Pradip Bhattacharya
		Parpola based his hypothesis of Rigvedic Aryan movement from Swat to Punjab around 1600-1400 B.C. on the Mitanni treaty and the Kikkuli chariot-horse training manual.
		Linguistic study shows that there is a large gap between the Rigvedic epoch and the time of the Mitanni document whose language is found to be middle-Indie and not Indo-Iranian or Old Indo-Aryan as supposed initially.
		He also makes the mistake of equating a possible Aryan presence in Swat with Rigvedic Aryanism in arguing that there was a horse-knowing culture's incursion from Swat into India which was a Rigvedic invasion.
	www.boloji.com /history/033.htm (3839 words)

	Rigveda and Sarasvati Sindhu Civilization Part 2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Rigvedic culture was governed by a cooperating society among the yajn~ikas and others, both endeavouring to generate wealth:
		Like the people of the Sarasvati-Sindhu civilization who were fire- and metal-workers, the people of the Rigvedic culture were fire-workers par excellence.
		With this background information on the locus of Rigvedic culture and the Sarasvati-Sindhu civilization, we can revisit the archaeological evidence and the textual evidence.
	www.hindunet.org /saraswati/html/rvssc2.htm (6048 words)

	Rigveda and Sarasvati Sindhu Civilization (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The river also binds the Rigvedic culture and the Sarasvati-Sindhu civilization since the Sarasvati river is the locus of over 1200 ancient archaeological settlements and sapta-sindhu is the Rigvedic domain.
		The conclusions from these earth science perspectives are that when the Sarasvati river was in its mighy flow, it had carried the glacier waters which are now carried by S’atadru and Yamuna.
		The lexicon heralds a change in paradigm in philology establishing India of the days of the Rigvedic culture and Sarasvati-Sindhu civilization as a Linguistic Area as the bronze age dawned ca.
	www.hindunet.org /saraswati/html/rvssc.htm (6409 words)

	Benevolent Shiva with Ferocious Eyes
		The Rigvedic divinities, who were either atmospheric or celestial deities, were subsequently remodeled and renamed in the Brahmanical literature.
		Moreover, some scholars believe that in the pre-Vedic period, the people of the Indus valley civilization used to worship a god who was in some respects similar to the Puranic representation of Shiva-Pashupati.
		We do not have the name of that pre-Vedic god, and we are also not sure if he transformed into Rudra in the Rigvedic and later Vedic period.
	www.exoticindiaart.com /product/ZY68 (428 words)

	The Sunday Tribune - Spectrum - Article
		The earliest known form of Sanskrit is the Rigvedic language.
		She showed that the events described in the Rigvedic poems actually took place on the banks of the Indus and its tributaries.
		The Asura culture, as described in the Rigvedic poems bears a close resemblance to the Indus Valley culture.The Rigveda, and in fact all the four vedas were stolen from the Asuras.
	www.tribuneindia.com /2000/20000820/spectrum/main7.htm (662 words)

	VEDA STUDY - COW
		Rigvedic mantras again and again mention the fondness of cow towards barley.
		This fire is worshipped by vedic mantras which indicate that it may be a form of moon.
		One rigvedic mantra indicates that the heat is ultimately converted into high rising fire.
	www.angelfire.com /in4/vedastudy/cow4.html (460 words)

	FWF Der Wissenschaftsfonds - Home (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The project "A Rigvedic Lexicon (words beginning with vowels II)" represents the second part of a larger project, a dictionary of the whole Rigveda.
		The first part, containing all the Rigvedic words starting with the letter "a", will be published in this second part of the project.
		The content is not edited by the FWF, and the sole responsibility therefore lies with the author.
	www.fwf.ac.at /en/abstracts/abstract.asp?L=E&PROJ=P15833 (336 words)

	Why Perpetuate Myths?
		that the Helmand of Afghanistan was the Rigvedic Sarasvati.
		that since during the Rigvedic times the Sarasvati was a mighty flowing river and according to the archaeological?radiocarbon?dating?cum?hydrological evidence this river dried up around 2000 BC, the Rigveda has got to be earlier than 2000 BC.
		As is absolutely clear from RV 10.75.5?6, the entire area right from the Ganga on the east to the Indus on the west was occupied by the Rigvedic Aryans.
	www.hvk.org /articles/0803/124.html (2808 words)

	IMAGINING RIVER SARASVATI (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		But it does show that if the Rigvedic evidence is to be read in the manner it has been presented by the supporters of the Great Sarasvati thesis, a straightforward solution is available, by which we are no longer called upon to inflate a petty plains river into a veritable second Indus.
		The fact is that there has never been in the popular consciousness that goes into river-name fixing, any connexion between the Haryana ‘Sarsuti’, on the one hand, and the dry beds of the Chautang, Ghaghar, Hakra and Nara, forming the line of the postulated Desert River, on the other.
		We thus see that the claim that the Sarasvati could have fattened on the Yamuna and Sutlej during the time of the Rigveda or any time earlier in the middle Holocene is an extremely dubious one.
	members.tripod.com /ahsaligarh/river.htm (8990 words)

	The Hindu : Philology vanished: Frawley's Rigveda — II
		Frawley: "The [Rigveda] refers to how the Maruts, the wind-gods, bring the waters of the rain from the ocean (RV V.55.5)." This is more difficult to understand, unless one makes the Rigvedic Sarasvati flow right into the Arabian Sea, which is not the case (R. Mughal, Ancient Cholistan 1997).
		Frawley repeats the inadequate translation already criticised last time: "the Sarasvati, the easternmost Panjab river, then devoid of water,...[was] a great river pure in its course from the mountains to the sea (RV VII.95.5)!" He then relates the modern myth that the Rigvedic Sarasvati flowed into the Arabian Sea.
		— The Rigvedic people and their often half-mythical enemies (S'ambara's mountain forts at 2.14.6) have "a hundred forts" (s'ata pur, not a compound, not Epic pura!), spread between Kabul and the Ganga.
	www.hinduonnet.com /thehindu/op/2002/08/13/stories/2002081300020200.htm (1475 words)

	The Aryans
		By the end of the Rigvedic period, social class had settled into four rigid castes: the caturvarnas, or "four colors." At the top of the caturvarnas were the priests, or Brahmans.
		While the Rig Veda represents the most primitive religion of the Aryans during the Rigvedic Period, the religion of the Later Vedic period is dominated by the Brahmanas, or priestly book, which was composed sometime between 1000 and 850 BC.
		Later Vedic society is dominated by the Brahmans and every aspect of Aryan life comes under the control of priestly rituals and spells.
	www.wsu.edu /~dee/ANCINDIA/ARYANS.HTM (1293 words)

	Regions Central Asia - IIAS Newsletter Online
		He listed 383 Rigvedic words that 'have little or no chance of being of Indo-European origin.' He computed that these words constitute five or six per cent of the Rigvedic vocabulary, later reduced to four per cent on the basis of a more accurate database count of the total number of Rigvedic words.
		I call the result a breakthrough because it assigns a reasonably accurate location in space and time to the numerous schools of the Vedas that for millennia seemed to be suspended in air.
		The barley cultivation of Rigvedic pastoralism was replaced by rice (Suniti Kumar Chatterji derived Hindi cawal from Tibeto-Burman).
	www.iias.nl /iiasn/23/regions/23SA3.html (1729 words)

	Caste in the wrong mould
		But for those quick to point a finger at Muslim and Christian priests seeking new converts, a caveat is in order.
		That there is no mention of any birth-based caste in Rigveda is evident from the simple fact that names of none of the Rigvedic rishis carry any present day caste titles.
		There are at least ten Rigvedic richas showing that profession was not hereditary.
	www.hvk.org /articles/0103/261.html (993 words)

	Himal South Asian-August-2000
		Efforts to identify the Indus Civilisation with the Rigvedic culture was based mainly on three assumptions: That the Indus civilisation was Sarasvati-based; that the Rigvedic culture was co-eval with the Indus Civilisation; and that the Rigvedic culture was no different from the Indus in language, religious practices and urbanism.
		In fact, the Rigvedic references to the Sarasvati do not always pertain to a particular river alone.
		This is indicated by the terraces carved by the Ghaggar and its tributary the Markanda in the Shiwaliks.
	www.himalmag.com /feb2001/voices.html (1945 words)

	Ancient Sanskrit Online: Series Introduction
		Examples of these changes in simple compound words have already been given: the word saṃ-dhi itself, saṃ-hitā 'placed-together', and Rigvedic puró-hita 'placed in front'.
		As a compendium of Rigvedic grammar, Macdonell's Vedic Grammar for Students remains extremely useful.
		The same author's earlier and fuller Vedic Grammar is an outstanding work of scholarship, and is currently available from India as a reprint (Munshiram Manoharal, 2000; the reprint however lacks the last gathering and therefore much of the index).
	www.utexas.edu /cola/centers/lrc/eieol/vedol-0-X.html (5827 words)

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