Definitions for Rig-Veda

Rig-Veda Rig-Ve·da

Spelling: [rig-vey-duh, -vee-duh]
IPA: /rɪgˈveɪ də, -ˈvi də/

Rig-Veda is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 4 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 5 points.

You can make 208 anagrams from letters in Rig-Veda (-adegirv).

Definitions for Rig-Veda

noun

  1. one of the Vedas, a collection of 1028 hymns, dating from not later than the second millennium b.c.

Origin of Rig-Veda

From the Sanskrit word ṛgveda

Examples for Rig-Veda

In the Rig-Veda he appears both as god and (as it seems) as man.

The Rig-Veda (x. 72, 8) tells us the tale of the birth of her sons, the Adityas.

See preface to the fourth volume of my edition of the Rig-Veda.

In some of the hymns of the Rig-Veda we can still watch an earlier phase.

I give but one specimen, the 129th hymn of the tenth book of the Rig-Veda.

Preface to the fourth volume of my edition of the Rig-Veda, p. li.

Madhuvridh is likewise a word which does not occur again in the Rig-Veda.

The Rig-Veda has allusions to the phases and stations of the moon.

The rigid division of castes is seldom recognised in the Rig-Veda.

"Mortal has made the immortal," the Rig-Veda explicitly declares.

Word Value for Rig-Veda
Scrable

4

Words with friends

5

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