The Rigveda, the oldest of the Vedas, mainly consists of which of the following?
Hymns
The Rigveda is the oldest text of the Vedic corpus, dated to roughly 1500 to 1000 BCE.
It is organised into ten mandalas containing 1,028 suktas (hymns) and about 10,600 verses.
These suktas are hymns of praise addressed to deities such as Indra, Agni, Varuna and Soma.
Ritual manuals belong mainly to the Yajurveda and the later Brahmanas; philosophical essays are found in the Upanishads; epic narratives appear in the Ramayana and Mahabharata.
Hence, the Rigveda consists chiefly of hymns.
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