WHAT BOOKS AND BURIALS TELL US

There are four Vedas –

• Rigveda

• Samaveda

• ,Yajurveda

• Atharvaveda.

The oldest Veda is the (a)  

How many vedas are there

• 5

• 4

• 6

• 7

The Rigveda was composed about _______ years ago.

• 3500

• 2500

• 1,00,000

• 5,000

The Rigveda includes more than a thousand hymns, called (a)  

(a)   means “well-said”

These hymns are in praise of various ___________ or __________

(a)  

Three gods are especially important:

• Agni, the god of fire

• Indra, a warrior God

• Soma, a plant from which a special drink was prepared.

These hymns were composed by (a)   .

Priests taught students to :

• recite and memorise each syllable, word, and sentence

• bit by bit, with great care

• did not teach at all