Book Of Vedas In English
Book Of Vedas English
The Age of the 4 Vedas Each of the Vedas were composed at different dates, and in fact different verses within the same Veda are themselves composed in different centuries. With the Rig Veda, we can say that the last of hymns were composed at the latest by 1500BC, which sits as the terminus ante quem. However, the earliest of Rig Vedic hymns were composed much before this date. Probable timelines for this range from 3000BC to 6000BC. The German scholar Max Mueller, who was biased by the timeline set by the Bible, chose the date of 3000BC. Certainly there are many astronomical observation within the Rig Veda that point to a time t least 7-8 millennia before the present. Whether these refer to events that were current for the composers, or whether they were applying complex astronomical calculations.