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The Rigveda (Sanskrit: ऋग्वेदः ṛgvedaḥ, from ṛc "praise" and veda "knowledge") is an ancient Indian collection of Vedic Sanskrit hymns. It is one of the four sacred canonical texts (śruti) of Hinduism known as the Vedas.
The text is layered consisting of the Samhita, Brahmanas, Aranyakas and Upanishads. The Rigveda Samhita is the core text, and is a collection of 10 books (maṇḍalas) with 1,028 hymns (sūktas) in about 10,600 verses. In the eight books – Books 2 through 9 – that were composed the earliest, the hymns predominantly discuss cosmology and praise deities. The younger books (Books 1 and 10) in part also deal with philosophical or speculative questions, virtues such as dāna (charity) in society, questions about the origin of the universe and the nature of god, and other metaphysical issues in their hymns. The Rigveda is the oldest known Vedic Sanskrit text.
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The author, Amrit Ranjan Acharya, was born Purba Medinipur, West Bengal, India. He was the writer and principal of Akandabari High School and Maheshpur High School. Some of his book are “Amrit Katha” and some of his Bengali poem books are “Rigved, Samved, Yajurved, Atharbaved, Mitrakshar”. He was awarded “Baidik kabi” by Mahabanga Sahityaparisad im 2014.
