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ANCIENT INDIA

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Which sentence best supports the topic sentence, “Written Ancient Indian history was recorded religious text”? “[1] Knowledge about the Aryans comes from part of The Vedas, which is made up of four sacred texts written in Sanskrit (ancient writing of India). [2] The Vedas is one of the oldest existing texts written in any Indo-European language. [3] It was written over a period of 500-600 years and remains a religious text for Hinduism today”
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Sentence 1
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Sentence 2
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Sentence 3
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None of the above
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The Vedas are the most sacred texts in Hinduism. The Rig Veda is the oldest of the Vedas. It was written in Sanskrit at least 6, 000 years ago.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Vedas are a large body of Hindu texts originating in Vedic period in northern India, the Rig Veda being composed ca. 1200 BCE, and its Samhita and Brahmanas complete before about 800 BCE.

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.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Vedas date back to 6000 BC, Sanskrit scholars brainstorming on the dates of the ancient texts at a conclave organised by Delhi University’s Sanskrit department said on Saturday. This amounts to the Vedas getting older by 4500 years compared to what we thought.

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