Mandala 8

Eighth book of the Rigveda

The eighth Mandala of the Rigveda has 103 hymns. Other than the "family books" and RV 1 and RV 10, Mandala 8 cannot straightforwardly be dated as a whole relative to the other books, and its hymns may include both ancient and late specimens. Most hymns in this book are attributed to the kāṇva family. The hymns 8.49 to 8.59 are the apocryphal vālakhilya, the majority of them are devoted to Indra; these are accepted as a recent portion, properly already post-Rigvedic.

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