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Someone Sorted the Rigveda
The hymns of the Rigveda's oldest books are filed in strict descending order of length, group by group, like rows in a spreadsheet. Nine times in ten the order holds, and the places where it breaks turn out to be the seams where the collection grew.
The Syllable Clock: How Meter Dates the Rigveda From Within
A famous Rigvedic line does not scan, until you read it the way it was first sung. The story of how Oldenberg and E. V. Arnold turned syllable counting into a clock for the Rigveda's hidden internal chronology.