The Rig Veda has over a thousand hymns (sukta) that are arranged in ten chapters (mandala). The first and the tenth mandalas have precisely 191 hymns, indicating that the arrangement of hymns is not ...

New Delhi, Dec. 13: Physicist Vivek Sharma who was born in Muzaffarpur, Bihar, and now leads an international group hunting for the Higgs boson sees the search as an attempt to seek out answers to ...

The mantras of the Rig Veda reveal how the first Hindus engaged with the unknown So the Rig Veda is a collection of over a thousand finely crafted hymns (mantras) distributed over 10 chapters known as ...

The Rig Veda is the foremost of all Sruti literature. It consists of 1,028 hymns with a total of 10,562 lines, which are described, in 10 books. A hymn has three basic parts. The first part is an ...

The following is a very brief but powerful hymn from the Rig Veda: "Aum Avrikey Kshesh-yanta". The following is a very brief but powerful hymn from the Rig Veda: "Aum Avrikey Kshesh-yanta". Avrikey ...

The Bangalore Men – an all-male voices ensemble- led by Jonas Olsson, voice faculty at Bangalore School of Music will present choral hymns, set by British composer Gustav Holst's (1874-1934) ‘Sanskrit ...

Written during Holst's so-called 'Sanskrit' period, the composer sets 14 of the over 1000 hymns from the Rig Veda collection. While the music of Holst's Indian verse settings remained generally ...