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 1 Intro,  3 |         calculated that in bulk the RV. is equivalent to the extant
 2 Intro,  3 |             twofold division of the RV. into parts. One, which
 3 Intro,  4 |           formed the nucleus of the RV., which gradually assumed
 4 Intro,  4 |          position at the end of the RV. and the fact that the number
 5 Intro,  5 |          LANGUAGE.~The hymns of the RV. are composed in the earliest
 6 Intro,  5 |             most apparent. Thus the RV. very frequently uses the
 7 Intro,  5 |       Sanskrit. The language of the RV. also differs from Sanskrit
 8 Intro,  5 |             kind.~The Sandhi of the RV. represents an earlier and
 9 Intro,  5 |         palatal or dental is in the RV. restricted to cases where
10 Intro,  5 | justification. After e and o in the RV. a is nearly always pronounced,
11 Intro,  5 |         knowing the language of the RV.~
12 Intro,  6 |             METRE.~The hymns of the RV. are without exception metrical.
13 Intro,  6 |            number of stanzas in the RV. The Vedic metres, which
14 Intro,  7 |           are usually stated in the RV. to be thirty-three in number,
15 Intro,  7 |           at the same time; for the RV. occasionally refers to
16 Intro,  7 |          most cases the gods of the RV. have not yet become dissociated
17 Intro,  7 |         such identifications in the RV. The idea is even found
18 Intro,  7 |             other late hymns of the RV. we find the deities Aditi
19 Intro,  7 |           division suggested by the RV. itself. The celestial gods
20 Intro,  7 |          far as is possible, of the RV. itself. A few quite subordinate
21 Intro,  7 |             detached stanzas of the RV., comes down from the Indo-Iranian
22 Intro,  7 |            scattered stanzas of the RV. He is described as having
23 Intro,  7 |      personified and invoked in the RV. Thus the Sindhu (Indus)
24 Intro,  7 |          never lost sight of in the RV.~Abstract deities.--One
25 Intro,  7 |            during the period of the RV. from the concrete towards
26 Intro,  7 |            at all frequently in the RV. is Tvastr, the 'Artificer',
27 Intro,  7 |       refrain of a late hymn of the RV. (x. 121) is kasmai devaya
28 Intro,  7 |             the latest parts of the RV. is Brhaspati (p. 83).~The
29 Intro,  7 |           celebrated throughout the RV. is A-diti, 'Liberation', '
30 Intro,  7 |           to an idiom common in the RV. and elsewhere. The word
31 Intro,  7 |             only three times in the RV., probably came into being
32 Intro,  7 |           insignificant part in the RV. The only one of importance
33 Intro,  7 |      feature of the religion of the RV. is the invocation of pairs
34 Intro,  7 |             number is stated in the RV. to be seven or, with the
35 Intro,  7 |             powers are known to the RV. The most prominent of these
36 Intro,  7 |   Occasional mention is made in the RV. of an Apsaras, a celestial
37 Intro,  7 |         Urvasi. Gandharva is in the RV. a single being (like the
38 Intro,  7 |             be found deified in the RV. Thus besides Rivers and
39 Intro,  7 |             are also invoked in the RV. (i. 28, 6. 6). Weapons,
40 Intro,  7 |          seldom called asura in the RV., where in the older parts
41 Intro,  7 |         scarcely referred to in the RV., but often mentioned in
42 Intro,  8 |            geographical data of the RV., especially the numerous
43 Intro,  9 |         mysticism. Nevertheless the RV. contains much genuine poetry.
44 Intro,  10|       dealing with the hymns of the RV. the important question
45 Intro,  10|      considerable proportion of the RV. is clear, but of the remainder
46 Intro,  10|             detached stanzas of the RV.; for he quotes one of his
47 Intro,  10|           by the translation of the RV., begun by H.H. Wilson in
48 Intro,  10|        large number of words in the RV. Hence their interpretations
49 Intro,  10|          the difficult parts of the RV. from internal evidence
50   1       |           is a prominent one in the RV. Thirdly, a celestial origin
51   1       |           clearly recognized in the RV., and represents the earliest
52   3       |         deities is prominent in the RV., thirty-three hymns being
53   3       |          compounds of vidyút in the RV. are almost exclusively
54   3       |        raining.~The evidence of the RV. indicates that the Maruts
55   4       |         subordinate position in the RV., being celebrated in only
56   5       |        named pair of deities in the RV. They are so closely associated
57   6       |      one-fourth of the hymns of the RV., far more than are addressed
58   6       |            universal monarch of the RV., who wields passive and
59   6       |          Vrtra-slaying Indra of the RV. The etymology of the word
60   7       |         subordinate position in the RV., being celebrated in only
61   9       |         often means 'friend' in the RV., and the Avestic Mithra
62  18       |         greatest of the gods of the RV., though the number of the
63  21       |         centre of the ritual of the RV., the god Soma is one of
64  21       |             the latest hymns of the RV. Soma begins to be mystically
65  21       |   Indo-Iranian worship, In both the RV. and the Avesta it is stated
66  22       |                   FUNERAL HYMNS~The RV. contains a group of five
67  28       |           of an earthly, and in the RV. that of a heavenly paradise.~