Citations:Rigveda


 * 1900 — Arthur Anthony Macdonell, A History of Sanskrit Literature, ch ii, p. 30
 * By far the most important as well as the oldest—for it is the very foundation of all Vedic literature—is the Rigveda, the "Veda of verses" (from ṛich, "a laudatory stanza"), consisting entirely of lyrics, mainly in praise of different gods.