After the time of the Rigveda, Aryan society became increasingly agricultural and was socially organized around the four varnas, or social classes.

* 1500 BC – 1400 BC: The Rigveda was composed around this time.

According to one version of Creation as embodied in the Indian Rigveda ( RV ), mortal life emerged from the procreation by Dyauṣ Pitā, whereby the mother Earth, goddess Prithivi was impregnated by the Dyauṣ Pitṛ by way of rains.

Tracheotomy was described in the Rigveda, a Sanskrit text of ayurvedic medicine written around 2000 BC in ancient India.

The Samaveda was derived from the Rigveda so that its hymns could be sung as Samagana.

It was described in the Rigveda, a Sanskrit text, circa 2000 BC.

The Rigveda states that the weapon was made for Indra by Tvastar, the maker of divine instruments.

The hymns of the Rigveda are thus composed in a liturgical language which was based on the natural language spoken in Gandhara during the early phase of the Swat culture, at the end of the Indian Bronze Age.

His commentary on the Rigveda was edited by Max Müller, 1849-1875.

In the days of Rigveda, there were two major groups of Aryans ; The Indo-Aryans who believed that Aditi was the true mother of the gods and Irano-Aryans ( Dasyu ) who believed Diti, the twin sister was.

Firstly he gave the name of Purumitra mentioned two times in the Rigveda. Secondly he mentioned well-known Rishi Vishwamitra who was the priest of king Sudas.

In his view king Manium of Magan who, according to Poebel, was also known as Mannu, was the famed Manu, the first sacrificer in the Indian sacred text Rigveda.

The dawn goddess was also the goddess of spring, involved in the mythology of the Indo-European new year, where the dawn goddess is liberated from imprisonment by a god ( reflected in the Rigveda as Indra, in Greek mythology as Dionysus and Cronus ).

Allush Rishi was son of a ' Daasi ', gambler and of low character but he did research on Rigveda and made several discoveries.

Rigveda has dozens of references to words derived from ' tapas ' which indicate that " suffering, austerity " was its meaning from the Rigvedic times.

Doniger's Rigveda, a translation of 108 hymns selected from the canon, was deemed among the most reliable by historian of religion Ioan P. Culianu She has also been called " one of the most distinguished mythologists of our time " by Sudhir Kakar.

In 19th century Indo-European studies, the language of the Rigveda was the most archaic Indo-European language known to scholars, indeed the only records of Indo-European that could reasonably claim to date to the Bronze Age.

Dicing is mentioned as an Indian game in the Rigveda, Atharvaveda and Buddha games list ; it also plays a critical role in the great Hindu epic Mahabharata, where Yudhisthira plays a game of dice against the Kauravas for the northern kingdom of Hastinapura, which becomes the trigger for a war.

" Rivers are often likened to cows in the Rigveda, for example in RV 3. 33. 1,

In India, ghee has been a symbol of purity and an offering to the gods — especially Agni, the Hindu god of fire — for more than 3000 years ; references to ghee's sacred nature appear numerous times in the Rigveda, circa 1500 – 1200 BCE.

In the Marut Suktas ( RV 1, 2, 5, 8 ) and Indra-Suktas ( RV 1, 3, 8, 10 ) of the Rigveda ( RV ), the epithet " Rudras " – originating from the verb root rud or ru and meaning howlers, roarers or shouters – is used numerous times for the Maruts – identifying them with the Rudras even when associated with Indra, rather than Rudra.

The Rigveda calls the plant the " God for Gods " seemingly giving him precedence above Indra and the other Gods ( RV 9. 42 )

In Rigveda there comes a reference for Vishnu-Who has measured the three lokas in three steps. The two legs can be seen but the third can not. This probably grew up into independent tale in later vedic period.

Apām Napāt is sometimes, for example in Rigveda book 2 hymn 35 verse 3, described as a fire-god who originates in water ( see: Agni ).

Nirṛti is mentioned in a few hymns of the Rigveda, mostly to seek protection from her or imploring for her departure.

The Sama Veda, which is believed to have laid the foundation for Indian classical music, consists of hymns from the Rigveda, set to musical tunes which would be sung using three to seven musical notes during Vedic yajnas.

Similarly, the Rigveda uses krsna tvac " black skin " as a metaphor for irreligiosity.

The Rigveda does not mention Vimanas, but verses RV 1. 164. 47-48 have been taken as evidence for the idea of " mechanical birds ":

On account of his skill in wielding the Vajra, some epithets used for Indra in the Rigveda were Vajrabhrit ( bearing the bolt ), Vajrivat ( armed with the bolt ), Vajradaksina ( holding the bolt in his right hand ), Vajrabahu or Vajrahasta ( holding the Vajra in his hand ), and Vajrin ( armed with the bolt ).

* The Samhitas are named after the Vedas they belong to, for example Rig-Samhitas or Rig-Veda-Samhitas will refer to Samhitas of Rigveda.

The title has a long history in the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia, being attested from the Rigveda, where a is a ruler, see for example the (

The earliest Indian Vedic hymns, the Rigveda, dating from the late 2nd and early 1st millennia BC, make reference to the use of elephants for transport-especially Indra and his divine white elephant, Airavata-but make no reference to the use of elephants in war, focusing instead on Indra's role in leading horse cavalry.

The Samaveda outlined the ritual chants for singing the verses of the Rigveda, particularly for offerings of Soma.

The Vedas, which form the foundation of Hinduism for many, do not refer explicitly to homosexuality, but Rigveda says Vikruti Evam Prakriti ( perversity / diversity is what nature is all about, or, what seems un-natural is also natural ), which some scholars believe recognizes the cyclical constancy of homosexual / transsexual dimensions of human life, like all forms of universal diversities.

He composed glosses on forty hymns of the Rigveda, opening up for the first time its vista of spiritual significance.

The wedding hymn in the Rigveda ( RV 10. 85. 37-38 ) speaks of " husbands " ( plural ) for a single wife, but this may have a mythological character.

* The underlying language has not been identified though some 300 loanwords in the Rigveda are a good starting point for comparison.

Page 121 to 147 for summary of all such verses spread across entire Rigveda.

* Friedrich Max Müller, The Hymns of the Rigveda, with Sayana's commentary London, 1849-7, 2nd ed.

His translation of the Rigveda follows the text of Max Müller's six-volume Sanskrit edition.

Max Müller's edition of the Rigveda appeared in 1849 – 75.