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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 Fallow Strip: The Rigveda's Apocrypha and the Hymn to Lakṣmī That Is Not in the Rigveda
Millions recite the Śrī Sūkta every Diwali as a Rigvedic hymn. Open a printed Rigveda and it is not there. It belongs to the khilas, a shadow collection of hymns parked just outside the canon, and nobody can agree how many of them exist.