ངེས་བརྗོད་ཀྱི་རིག་བྱེད་

ངེས་བརྗོད་ཀྱི་རིག་བྱེད། (Wyl. nges brjod kyi rig byed ) Pron.: ngé jö kyi rikjé

• Skt. ऋग्वेदः, ṛgveda, Pron.: rigveda. From Sanskrit: 'Hymn - Veda' or 'Veda of praise', the Ṛig-veda, or most ancient sacred book of the Hindūs (that is, the collective body of sacred verses called Ṛicas [see below], consisting of 1017 hymns [or with the Vālakhilyas 1028] arranged in eight Ashṭakas or in ten Maṇḍalas | Maṇḍalas 2-8 contain groups of hymns, each group ascribed to one author or to the members of one family | the ninth book contains the hymns sung at the Soma ceremonies | the first and tenth contain hymns of a different character, some comparatively modern, composed by a greater variety of individual authors | in its wider sense the term Ṛig-veda comprehends the Brāhmaṇas and the Sūtra works on the ritual connected with the hymns [Mahavyutpatti] [Sanskrit] MVP MW