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Who Wrote the Rig Veda? Rishi Families and the Composition of the Veda
The Rig Veda was not the work of a single author. A close look at how the family Mandalas, the Pragatha Mandala (8), the Soma Mandala (9) and the late Mandalas (1 and 10) layer into the corpus we read today.