Which of the following is the earliest of the four Vedas and forms the foundation of Vedic literature ?
Rigveda
The four Vedas are the Rigveda, Samaveda, Yajurveda and Atharvaveda. Scholars place the composition of the oldest of them in the Early Vedic period, roughly 1500 to 1000 BCE, in the region of the Sapta Sindhu.
The Rigveda is a collection of 1,028 hymns (suktas) arranged in ten mandalas, addressed to deities such as Agni, Indra and Varuna. Its language is the oldest form of Vedic Sanskrit.
The Samaveda borrows most of its verses from the Rigveda and sets them to melody, while the Yajurveda (sacrificial formulae) and the Atharvaveda (spells and charms) are later compositions. So the Rigveda is both the earliest Veda and the base on which the rest of Vedic literature is built.
Hence, Rigveda.
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