- was
composed in the
northwestern region of the
Indian subcontinent (see
Rigvedic rivers), most
likely between c. 1500 and 1000 BCE,
although a
wider approximation...
- sacrifice). The
rites of
grave burials as well as
cremation are seen
since the
Rigvedic period.
Deities emphasized in the
Vedic religion include Dyaus, Indra,...
-
northwestern Indian subcontinent, from
Gandhara to Kurukshetra.
Identification of
Rigvedic hydronyms has
engaged multiple historians; it is the
single most important...
-
Rigvedic deities are
deities mentioned in the
sacred texts of Rigveda, the prin****l text of the
historical Vedic religion of the
Vedic period (1500–500...
- or śyāma ayas,
literally "black metal",
first is
mentioned in the post-
Rigvedic Atharvaveda, and
therefore the
Early Vedic Period was a
Bronze Age culture...
-
Archaeological Complex (BMAC).
Parpola (1999)
elaborates the
model and has "Proto-
Rigvedic" Indo-Aryans
intrude the BMAC
around 1700 BCE. He ****umes
early Indo-Aryan...
-
amalgamation of
various older non-Vedic and
Vedic deities,
including the
Rigvedic storm god
Rudra who may also have non-Vedic origins, into a
single major...
- are
believed to date from as
early as the
Rigvedic period, the
existing compilation dates from the post-
Rigvedic Mantra period of
Vedic Sanskrit, between...
- "great and holy
river in north-western India," but in the
middle and late
Rigvedic books it is
described as a
small river ending in "a
terminal lake (samudra)...
- 850 and 600 BCE. "Hindu"
occurs in
Avesta as heptahindu,
equivalent to
Rigvedic sapta sindhu. The 6th-century BCE
inscription of
Darius I
mentions Hindush...
