WORLD RELIGIONS

Detailed explanation-1: -Many of these beliefs were compiled in a set of scriptures written around 1300 B.C. known as the Vedas. It is believed that the Vedas are the eternal truths that were heard, then written down by holy seers. The Vedas say time and life are cyclical.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Vedas are among the oldest sacred texts. The bulk of the Rigveda Samhita was composed in the northwestern region (Punjab) of the Indian subcontinent, most likely between c. 1500 and 1200 BCE, although a wider approximation of c. 1700–1100 BCE has also been given.

Detailed explanation-3: -The original language of early Hindu sacred books is Sanskrit and they should be appreciated through speech rather than the written word. There are two categories of texts: the revealed texts and the remembered texts.

Detailed explanation-4: -The philological and linguistic evidence indicates that the Rig Veda is one of the oldest existing texts in any Indo-European language and that probably originated from the region of present day Pakistan, between 1500 and 1200 BCE.