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Expected questions from VEDAS

RIGVEDA

• The oldest literary work in the world
• The first literary item in the Indo European language.
• The popular God in the Rigveda era- Indhra
• Rig veda translated into Persian by- Max Muller
• Rig Veda translated into  Malayalam by- Vallathol Narayana Menon
• Rig veda starts with - 'Agnimeele purohitham'.
• Rigveda ends as- 'Yadhavah susahasathi'
• It describes the coming of Aryans and their life style
• It includes Mandooka sloka
• It include Gayathri Manthra
• It is the oldest veda
• The authors of vedas- Aryans
• The number of mandalas in the rigveda- 10
• The ninth mandala is for Soma dev
• The veda includes the description of medicinal plants.
• The river which has reference in rigveda- Sindhu
• The number of Sthothra in the rigveda- 1028
• The famous poetesses who had wrote the Rigveda lieraries- Khosha, Apaara, Lopamudhra

YAJURVEDA

• Describes the customs of Gurus
• Said about sacrifice processes (Bali kriyas) and rituals
• Include 40 units
• It is in the form of prose
• It is divided into 2 , first is Krishna yajur veda and the second is Shukla Yajur veda

SAMAVEDA

• It deals with the music

ADHARVAVEDA

• The last and fourth veda
• Ayurveda is its part
• It has 4 upavedas- Dhanur veda, Gandarva veda, Shilpa veda, Ayur veda.
• It says "The war starts in the human mind".

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