EduRev is a knowledge-sharing community that depends on everyone being able to pitch in when they know something. Within the filter hath he flowed, this Soma for the Gods effused, entering all their essences. The surviving form of the Rigveda is based on an early Iron Age (c. 10th c. BC) collection that established the core 'family books' (mandalas 2-7, ordered by author, deity and meter ) and a later redaction, co-eval with the redaction of the other Vedas, dating several centuries after the hymns were composed. “To Indra have the Soma drops, exceedingly rich in sweets, have been poured, Shed in the seat of sacrifice. *1 The phrase “iron fashioned home” means a large carved wooden bowl that was carved with an iron chisel, iron was a very special metal in the Bronze Age, so in effect they are bragging. In the stream’s wave wise Soma dwells, distilling rapture, in his seat, Resting upon a wild-cows hide. 1.“This here is Soma, never restrained, active, all conquering bursting forth, a Seer and Sage by sapience.2. This discussion on On which bark was the Rigveda written?a)Birch barkb)Neem Barkc)Cinkona Barkd)Tulsi BarkCorrect answer is option 'A'. 4. The Questions and 2. Birch trees are well known to be symbiotic with Amanita Muscaria and explain the link of this Holy Book made of Birch bark and Amanita Muscaria as the God Soma. 5.These glorious drops that give me freedom have I drunk. Now what may a foeman’s malice do to harm us? The Rig Veda is the world’s oldest and largest religious texts consisting of just over one thousand Hymns, containing over ten thousand verses divided into ten books. The chronology of c.1200-1000 BCE for the family books of the rig Veda is based on the tentative dates put forward … Nov 05,2020 - On which bark was the Rigveda written?a)Birch barkb)Neem Barkc)Cinkona Barkd)Tulsi BarkCorrect answer is option 'A'. 5 This Pavamana*3, swift and strong, Omniscient, gave splendor to the sun and all his forms of light. 4. 5,000-Year-old Book: The Rig Veda is Composed. Far-sighted Soma, Sage and Seer, is worshipped in the central part of Heaven, the strainer of wool. On which bark was the Rigveda written?a)Birch barkb)Neem Barkc)Cinkona Barkd)Tulsi BarkCorrect answer is option 'A'. If the answer is not available please wait for a while and a community member will probably answer this By means of this eternal fleece*2, may faith purify Thy Soma that is foaming forth”. 1.“This here is Soma, never restrained, active, all conquering bursting forth, a Seer and Sage by sapience. Within the Waters – Soma thus hath told me – dwell all balms that heal, and Agni, he who blesseth all. The Rig Veda is written in an archaic form of Sanskrit and is a foundation document in the studies of ancient Indo-European languages. Absorbed into the heart, be sweet, O drop, as a kind father to his son, O Soma, As a wise Friend to friend: do thou, wide-ruler, O Soma, lengthen out our days for living. The drinkable, Immortal, living God, Soma, is mentioned in almost every one of the thousand Hymns as the preferred drink of both Gods and men. Many of these Soma hymns ring with ecstatic praise of the Soma plant/god/drink. Traditionally the Rig Veda was hand written with ink, on Birch bark sheets that are then bound with wooden covers painted red. | EduRev UPSC Question is disucussed on EduRev Study Group by 124 UPSC Students. 5. These Sacred Hymns are usually dated to the late Bronze Age, but many of these Hymns may actually be considerably older. Answers of On which bark was the Rigveda written?a)Birch barkb)Neem Barkc)Cinkona Barkd)Tulsi BarkCorrect answer is option 'A'. Correct answer is option 'A'. Let them protect my foot from slipping on the way: yea let the drops I drink preserve me from disease. 2. Birch bark is the bark of Paper Birch Tree and was used as a writing material from prehistoric times. All that’s bare he covers over; all the sick he medicines, the blind man sees, the cripple walks.”. The Birch tree is not found on the plains of India and the Birch bark is imported from Kashmir and the Himalayan mountains. The secret of Magic cups or what we would call the Holy Grail is found scattered through the Hymns of book nine. “O Soma drop, we draw nigh to thee, with this one object day by day: To thee alone our prayers are said. Our maladies have lost their strength and vanished; they feared, and passed away into the darkness. 12. Birch bark is the bark of Paper Birch Tree and was used as a writing material from prehistoric times. 8. 19. The drop sends forth a voice on high to regions of air, shaking the vase that drops with honey. I believe that the Old Testament Bible’s word “Manna” is a Hebrew version of Pavamana, perhaps inherited from long forgotten Indo-European ancestors or from the Persian religion of Zoroaster. 3. The Seers and Sages that composed this book were experts on the Soma plant/drink/god and loudly proclaim the secret of Soma’s immortality, but to understand what they are saying, you have to know that Amanita Muscaria is the real Soma plant and that it is capable of being completely dried, rehydrated, pounded between stones, and turned into the gods own beloved juice, every drop of this Ambrosia can resurrect, and create a magic cup or larger magic vessel simply by a terra cotta or wooden cup being used to hold Soma. Soma hath risen in us, exceedingly mighty, and we have come to where men prolong existence. Some of these Hymns poetically describe the mountainous natural habitat and brilliant Red or Gold appearance of the Soma plant. over here on EduRev! Closely they knit my joints as straps secure a chariot. *3 Soma is called Soma Pavamana in most of the book 9 Hymns; Pavamana means self-purifying so Soma Pavamana is “the pressed one-self purifying”. “Monarch of everything that sees the sun light, Soma cleanses himself, triumphing over the Prophets, he made the Word of the Way to resound, he who is cleansed by the suns ray, he the father of poems, master-poet yet equaled.”. A few Hymns also contain clear references to healings and increased life spans of Soma users. agree to the. 2. Date of the birch bark Rig Veda is not mentioned. Fiend-queller, Friend of all men, he hath with the wood attained unto His place, his iron fashioned home*1.”. 1. 1. By continuing, I agree that I am at least 13 years old and have read and Fathers, that drop which our hearts have drunken, Immortal in himself, hath entered mortals. Wednesday, August 15, 2007 This rare copy of Rig Veda written on Birch Bark is kept at the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute, Pune. We have drunk Soma and become immortal; we have attained the light, the Gods discovered. All that’s bare he covers over; all the sick he medicines, the blind man sees, the cripple walks.”. The dates suggested for the composition of the Rig Veda range from c.6000 BCE to 1000 BCE. 6. Can you explain this answer? He shines in beauty there, this God Immortal in his dwelling place, Foe-slayer, dearest to the Gods. Other Hymns describe the processing sequence of the Soma plant into the Soma drink in the Soma sacrifice ceremony. 1. 4. *2 The “eternal fleece” is the mycelium of Amanita Muscaria, which resembles sheep’s wool, as you can see in the.