The Rigveda, the oldest of the sacred books of Hinduism, is written in Vedic Sanskrit, an ancient form of the Sanskrit language.
Rigveda, the oldest of the sacred books of Hinduism, composed in an ancient form of Sanskrit about 1500 bce, in what is now the Punjab region of India and Pakistan.
It consists of a collection of 1,028 poems grouped into 10 “circles” (mandalas)