CIVILIZATION
INDUS VALLEY
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The hundreds or thousands of sacred hymns and texts that explain about daily life in Ancient India
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Their God
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The bus that was used to travel
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -A Veda is a collection of poems or hymns composed in archaic Sanskrit by Indo-European-speaking peoples who lived in northwest India during the 2nd millennium BCE. The hymns formed a liturgical body that in part grew up around the soma ritual and sacrifice and were recited or chanted during rituals.
Detailed explanation-2: -What is the Veda? The Aryans called their most sacred text Veda, meaning the ‘knowledge’. It was believed to have arisen from the infallible ‘hearing’ (śruti), by ancient seers, of the sacred deposit of words whose recitation and contemplation bring stability and wellbeing to both the natural and human worlds.
Detailed explanation-3: -It is a collection of 1, 028 Vedic Sanskrit hymns and 10, 600 verses in all, organized into ten books (Sanskrit: mandalas). The hymns are dedicated to Rigvedic deities. The books were composed by poets from different priestly groups over a period of several centuries between c.