How Long to Read The Hymns of the Rigveda

How Long Does it Take to Read The Hymns of the Rigveda?

It takes the average reader 18 hours and 11 minutes to read The Hymns of the Rigveda by Unknown Authors

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

In the dim twilight preceding the dawn of Indian literature the historical imagination can perceive the forms of Aryan warriors, the first Western conquerors of Hindustan, issuing from those passes in the north-west through which the tide of invasion has in successive ages rolled to sweep over the plains of India. The earliest poetry of this invading race, whose language and culture ultimately overspread the whole continent, was composed while its tribes still occupied the territories on both sides of the Indus now known as Eastern Kabulistan and the Panjab. That ancient poetry has come down to us in the form of a collection of hymns called the Rigveda. The cause which gathered the poems it contains into a single book was scientific and historical. The number of hymns comprised in the Rigveda, in the only recension which has been preserved, that of the Çakala school, is 1017, or, if the eleven supplementary hymns (called Valakhilya) which are inserted in the middle of the eighth book are added, 1028. These hymns are grouped in ten books, called mandalas, or "cycles," which vary in length, except that the tenth contains the same number of hymns as the first. In bulk the hymns of the Rigveda equal, it has been calculated, the surviving poems of Homer.

How long is The Hymns of the Rigveda?

The Hymns of the Rigveda by Unknown Authors is 1,058 pages long, and a total of 272,964 words.

This makes it 357% the length of the average book. It also has 334% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Hymns of the Rigveda Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 24 hours and 51 minutes to read The Hymns of the Rigveda aloud.

What Reading Level is The Hymns of the Rigveda?

The Hymns of the Rigveda is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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