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Vedic Geography: Where the Rig Veda Was Actually Composed
The Rig Veda is a deeply geographical text. Its hymns name rivers, mountains, plains and cardinal directions with a consistency that lets us pin its composition to a specific region — the Saptasindhu, the 'Land of the Seven Rivers' in what is today Punjab, Haryana, and eastern Pakistan.