Rigveda
- Idioma:
- inglés
- Estado:
- Selección u obra parcial
- Autoría:
- Anónima o compuesta
- Estado del texto:
- Con errores de escaneo (medición automática sobre todo el texto, no revisada a mano) · 3 pasajes ilegibles, excluidos de las respuestas
- Extensión:
- ~110.000 palabras · 504 pasajes
Cita esta obra
- APAVedas. (n.d.). The Rig Veda [Rigveda]. Digital reproduction: SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/es/works/rig-veda/the-rig-veda
- MLAVedas. The Rig Veda [Rigveda]. Digital reproduction, SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/es/works/rig-veda/the-rig-veda.
- ChicagoVedas. The Rig Veda [Rigveda]. Digital reproduction, SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/es/works/rig-veda/the-rig-veda.
Referencia de la edición reproducida. SigPhi es la reproducción digital. Se incluyen año, editorial y traductor cuando constan; «n.d.» indica que no consta el año.
De qué trata
El Rigveda, el texto más antiguo de la India y uno de los más antiguos del mundo: mil veintiocho himnos en sánscrito védico, transmitidos oralmente con una precisión que cuesta creer.
Contexto e historia
Se compuso hacia el segundo milenio a. C. y se conservó durante siglos sin escritura, memorizado por familias de sacerdotes con técnicas de recitación cruzada que permitían detectar cualquier error: el texto que leemos es probablemente más fiel que el de muchos manuscritos medievales europeos. Los himnos son invocaciones a Agni, Indra, Varuna, Soma y otros, para rituales de fuego. Lo que sorprende al lector moderno es su extrañeza: son textos de una cultura que no tenemos manera de reconstruir entera, y muchos pasajes son oscuros hasta para los comentaristas indios antiguos. El famoso himno 10.129, sobre el origen del mundo, acaba diciendo que quizá ni el dios que lo vigila desde arriba lo sepa.
Contexto editorial, no una fuente citable: a diferencia de los pasajes de la obra, estos datos no se pueden comprobar contra el corpus.
7 They anointed'^ the Man, the sacrifice® born at the beginning, upon the sacred grass.® With bim the gods, Sadhyas,^® and sages sacrificed. 8 From that sacrifice® in which everything was offered, the melted fat^ was collected, and he^ made it into those beasts who live in the air, in the forest, and in villages. 7 From that sacrifice in which everything was offered, the verses and chants were born, the metres were born from it, and from it the formulas were born.^ 10 Horses were born from it, and those other animals that have two rows of teeth;i^ cows were born from it, and from It goats and sheep were born. CREATION 11 When they divided the Man, into how many parts did they apporOdh him? What do they call his mouth, his two arms and thighs and feet? , 12 His mouth became the Brahmin; his arms were made mto the Warrior, his thighs the People, and from his feet the Servants were born.^® 1} The moon was bom from his mind; from his eye the sun was bom. Indra and Agm came from his mouth, and from'his vital breath the Wmd was born. 14 From his navel the middle realm of space arose; from his head the sky evolved. From his two feet came the earth, and the quarters of the sky from his ear. Thus they set the worlds m order. ij There were seven enclosmg-sticks^'^ for him, and thrice seven fuel-sticks, when the gods, spreadmg the sacrifice, bound the Man as the sacrifiaal beast. 16 With the sacrifice the gods sacrificed to the sacrifice,^® These were the first ritual laws.^® These very powers reached the dome of the sky where dwell the Sadhyas,^® the anaent gods.…