Question

Which Indian literature is the collection of 1028 hymns written in Vedic Sanskrit?
A) Rig Veda
B) Sama Veda
C) Brahamans
D) Aryankas

Answer 1

Hint: The Vedas are a collection of religious literature that dates back to ancient India. The books, written in Vedic Sanskrit, are the earliest layer of Sanskrit literature as well as Hinduism's oldest scriptures. The Rigveda, the Yajurveda, the Samaveda, and the Atharvaveda are the four Vedas.

Complete answer:
Let us analyze the given options:
Option A) This is the correct option because the oldest existing Indic text is the Rigveda Samhita. It consists of ten books with a total of 1,028 Vedic Sanskrit hymns and 10,600 verses (Sanskrit: mandalas). The hymns pay homage to Rigvedic gods.

The Rigveda is organised around a set of principles. The Veda begins with a little book dedicated to Agni, Indra, Soma, and other gods, all of whom are listed in order of decreasing total number of hymns in each deity collection; songs are shorter as the deity series progresses, but the number of hymns each book grows.

Option B) This is not the correct option because except for 75 verses, the Samaveda has 1,549 original verses, virtually exclusively derived from the Rigveda. The Rig Veda's Books 9 and 8 contain the greatest number of verses.

Option C) This is not the correct option because the Brahmanas are Vedic śruti writings associated with the Rig, Sama, Yajur, and Atharva Vedas' Samhitas (hymns and mantras). They are a layer or categorization of Sanskrit scriptures contained inside each Veda that frequently explain and advise Brahmins on how to perform Vedic rituals.

Option D) This is not the correct option because forest writings called as Aryankas were prepared to guide hermits and pupils. They are the last section of the Brahmanas. The Aryankas are the philosophical underpinnings of the Vedas, Brahmanas, and Upanishads' ceremonies.

The correct option is ‘A’ i.e, Rigveda is the collection of 1028 hymns written in Vedic Sanskrit.

Note: In Hinduism, the Rigveda is regarded as one of the four sacred Vedic books. The Rigveda Samhita refers to the profundity of the canonical writings. This is a compilation of over a thousand hymns, or suktas, and well over ten thousand verses, organised into 10 mandalas, or books.