Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The most ancient collection of Hindu sacred verses, consisting principally of hymns to various deities.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
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Veda .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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The Rig-Veda is a very old collection of 1017 short poems, chiefly addressed to the gods, and containing 10,580 verses.
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 01 Rossiter Johnson 1885
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Wise poets, by words, make the beautiful-winged manifold, though he is One "(" Rig-Veda, "B.C.
The Freethinker's Text Book, Part II. Christianity: Its Evidences, Its Origin, Its Morality, Its History Annie Wood Besant 1890
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He also said that the idea of Supermind,the Truth-Consciousness, is in the Rig-Veda and one or two passages in the Upanishads,though only in seed form.
The Mother & Sri Aurobindo have already accomplished the metaphysical victory Tusar N Mohapatra 2009
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The AP reports that Rajan Zed of Reno, Nev., began by saying "om" to represent the universe and then read passages in Sanskrit and English from he Rig-Veda and Bhagavad-Gita.
Colorado Senate Opens With Hinud Prayer for First Time [Corrected] Howard M. Friedman 2008
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Take for example, the Rig-Veda, the oldest written book.
Archive 2008-04-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2008
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Take for example, the Rig-Veda, the oldest written book.
Sri Aurobindo’s attitude is summarized in his saying, “Reason was the helper; Reason is the bar” Tusar N Mohapatra 2008
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Almost seems like a paraphrase of what Sri Aurobindo writes except for the fact that he would hark back to the Rig-Veda and not Nagarjuna.
Rig-Veda and not Nagarjuna Tusar N Mohapatra 2007
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Almost seems like a paraphrase of what Sri Aurobindo writes except for the fact that he would hark back to the Rig-Veda and not Nagarjuna.
Archive 2007-03-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2007
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Savitri Era: Rig-Veda and not Nagarjuna skip to main
Rig-Veda and not Nagarjuna Tusar N Mohapatra 2007
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If God speaks through the Rig-Veda, then where can we find that book?
Those contemptuous atheists... why won't they be kind? Ann Althouse 2006
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