Rigveda
- Idioma:
- anglès
- Completesa:
- Selecció o obra parcial
- Autoria:
- Anònima o composta
- Estat del text:
- Text net · 3 passatges il·legibles, exclosos de les respostes
- Extensió:
- ~110.000 paraules · 504 passatges
Cita aquesta obra
- APAVedes. (n.d.). Rigveda. SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/ca/works/rig-veda/the-rig-veda
- MLAVedes. "Rigveda." SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/ca/works/rig-veda/the-rig-veda.
- ChicagoVedes. Rigveda. SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/ca/works/rig-veda/the-rig-veda.
De què tracta
El Rigveda, el text mes antic de l'India i un dels mes antics del mon: mil vint-i-vuit himnes en sanscrit vedic, transmesos oralment amb una precisio que costa de creure.
Context i història
Es va compondre cap al segon mil·lenni aC i es va conservar durant segles sense escriptura, memoritzat per families de sacerdots amb tecniques de recitacio creuada que permetien detectar qualsevol error: el text que llegim es probablement mes fidel que el de molts manuscrits medievals europeus. Els himnes son invocacions a Agni, Indra, Varuna, Soma i altres, per a rituals de foc. El que sorprèn el lector modern es la seva estranyesa: son textos d'una cultura que no tenim manera de reconstruir sencera, i molts passatges son foscos fins per als comentaristes indis antics. El famos himne 10.129, sobre l'origen del mon, acaba dient que potser ni el deu que el vigila des de dalt no ho sap.
Context editorial, no una font citable: a diferència dels passatges de l'obra, aquestes dades no es poden contrastar amb el corpus.
1 Not one of you, gods, is small, not one a little child; all of you are truly great. ^ 2 "'Therefore you are worthy of praise and of sacrifice, you thkty-three gods of Manu, arrogant and powerful. ^ Protect us, help us and speak for us ; do not lead us into the ^stance far away from the path of our father Manu. ^ You gods who are all here and who belong to all men, give far-reachmg shelter to us and to our cows and horses. CREATION The R/^ Veda refers glancingly to many different theories of creation. Several of these regard creation as the result - often apparently a mere by-product - of a cosmic battle, such as those mentioned in the hymns to Indra, or as a result of the apparendy immotivated act of separating heaven and earth, an act attributed to several different gods. These aspects of creation are woven m and out of the hymns m the older parts of the Rjg Veda, books a through 9 But in the subsequent tenth book we encounter for the first time hymns that are entirely devoted to speculations on the ongms of the cosmos. Some of these hymns seek the ongms of the existence of existence itself (10.129) or of the creator himself (10.121). Others speculate upon the sacrifice as the origin of the earth and the people m it (10.90), or upon the ongms of the sacrifice (10.130, 10.190). Sacrifice is central to many concepts of creation, particulady to those exphady linked to sacrificial gods or instruments, but it also appears as a supplement to other forms of creation such as sculpture (10.81-2) or anthropomorphic birth (10.72). 10.…