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The Knot on the Right: What the Rigveda Wore
A Rigvedic hymn identifies an entire priestly family by their hairstyle. Follow the text's clothing words and you find a wool economy, a loom with pegs driven into the ground, exactly one needle, and the metaphor that eventually gave Sanskrit the words sutra and tantra.
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.