ऋग्वेद
Rigveda Samhita
Śākala recension
The oldest of the four and the source most of the others draw on, with the traditional index naming a seer, a deity and a metre for every verse.
How this collection is divided
Mandala → Sukta → Mantra
Ten mandalas, each a book of hymns, each hymn a run of mantras. The family books, two to seven, are the older core; the first and tenth are later collections.
- Verses
- 10,552
- Translated
- 10,480
- Recited
- 10,552
- Mandalas
- 10
What this collection carries
- Accented romanised Sanskrit
- English translation
- Verse-by-verse recitation
- Cross-Veda parallels
- Deity named by the index
- Seer attribution
- Metre
- Deities named in the verse
- Named entities
- Shared formulas
- Concept links
This is one recension of one Samhita. What this edition covers and excludes, and how each kind of coverage is typed, is set out on the scope page.
Index of the collection
10 mandalas
Recitation audio
All 10,552 verses of this collection carry their own recitation, one recording per verse.
Sources: VedSearch (10,402), VedaWeb (Kirchheiner collection, National Library of Denmark) (150). Each recording’s full provenance, and how it was matched to its verse, is on the reader page.