The Rigveda (Sanskrit: เคเคเฅเคตเฅเคฆเค แนgvedaแธฅ, from แนc "praise" and veda "knowledge") is an ancient Indian collection of Vedic Sanskrit hymns. It is one of the four sacred canonical texts (ลruti) 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 (maแนแธalas) with 1,028 hymns (sลซktas) in about 10,600 verses. In the eight books โ Books 2 through 9 โ 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 dฤna (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.
The author, Amrit Ranjan Acharya, was born Purba Medinipur, West Bengal, India. He was theย writer and principalย of Akandabari High School and Maheshpur High School. Some of his book are โAmrit Kathaโ and some of his Bengali poem books are โRigved, Samved, Yajurved, Atharbaved, Mitraksharโ.ย He was awarded โBaidik kabiโ by Mahabanga Sahityaparisad im 2014.