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The Rigveda's Oral Engine: How a 3,000-Year Tradition Preserved Itself Without Writing
The Rigveda was composed, memorized, and transmitted for over a thousand years before anyone in South Asia wrote a word. The system that made this possible is not faith or devotion but a set of combinatorial recitation patterns that function as error-correcting codes. Here is how they work.