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[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]KarenThomson and Jonathan Slocum[/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]Study ofthe language of the [/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman, serif]Rigveda[/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman, serif],the earliest surviving Sanskrit text, shows that it is an anthologyof poems that were composed over a period of many centuries. Some ofits hymns are believed to date from the beginning of the secondmillennium BC, or even earlier according to some scholars.[/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]The mostdetailed study of the internal chronology of these poems, based on ananalysis of vocabulary, grammatical forms, and metre, was carried outby E. Vernon Arnold a century ago, building on the work of hisnineteenth-century predecessors (see the reading list in section 9 ofthe Series Introduction). Arnold assigns the poems to five basicperiods: Archaic (the earliest poems), Strophic, Cretic, Normal, andPopular, the last consisting of poems significantly later than therest, most of which are found towards the end of Books I to IX, or inBook X. The periods of composition of the lesson texts are asfollows:[/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]Study ofthe language of the [/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman, serif]Rigveda[/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman, serif],the earliest surviving Sanskrit text, shows that it is an anthologyof poems that were composed over a period of many centuries. Some ofits hymns are believed to date from the beginning of the secondmillennium BC, or even earlier according to some scholars.[/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]The mostdetailed study of the internal chronology of these poems, based on ananalysis of vocabulary, grammatical forms, and metre, was carried outby E. Vernon Arnold a century ago, building on the work of hisnineteenth-century predecessors (see the reading list in section 9 ofthe Series Introduction). Arnold assigns the poems to five basicperiods: Archaic (the earliest poems), Strophic, Cretic, Normal, andPopular, the last consisting of poems significantly later than therest, most of which are found towards the end of Books I to IX, or inBook X. The periods of composition of the lesson texts are asfollows:[/FONT]
- [FONT=Times New Roman, serif]Archaic (Lessons 5, 6 and 10)[/FONT]
- [FONT=Times New Roman, serif]Strophic (Lesson 4)[/FONT]
- [FONT=Times New Roman, serif]Cretic (Lessons 1, 7 and 8)[/FONT]
- [FONT=Times New Roman, serif]Normal (Lessons 2 and 3)[/FONT]
