3.+SAMANTHA+BUDGE

The Rig Veda is the oldest of the Vedas, all the other Vedas are based upon it. It consists of a thousand hymns of different seers, each hymn averaging around ten verses. The Rig Veda is the oldest book in Sanskrit or any Indo-European language. No one is sure of when it was written but evidence leads to before 4000 B.C., perhaps as early as 12,000.