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The Rig Veda Ends With a Meeting
After more than a thousand hymns to gods, storms and rivers, the Rigveda closes with four verses asking a group of people to agree. A few hymns earlier it preserves a charm for crushing the same gathering. Between them lies the oldest evidence for how Vedic people made decisions.