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The Spoked Wheel: How Chariots Help Date the Rig Veda
The Rig Veda is full of fast, light, spoke-wheeled chariots. That single piece of technology is one of the strongest clues to when and where the hymns were composed.
The Cow as Currency: Cattle and Wealth in the Rig Veda
In the Rig Veda the word for a battle can literally mean 'a search for cows.' A sourced look at cattle as wealth, measure and metaphor in the Vedic economy.
Seven Rivers: The Geography of the Rig Veda
Sapta Sindhu, the Nadistuti (RV 10.75), and the lost Sarasvati: how the Rig Veda's rivers map the Vedic world onto the northwest.