Department of Vedic Studies
I figured it would make me hip to devote some time to the Vedas and that I could do this without committing heresy. I intend to post future posts re the Vedas in this blog-posts as sub-posts.
Rig Veda is the oldest text of Hinduism- the average estimate is that it dates to 1300 BC, 3300 years ago. It contains 10 books that in total contain 1028 hymns. Though exposed to the study of the Vedas all my life, I always assumed that they were verbose boring redundant and impossible to get through without sacrificing excess of time and energy. But today, I used random.org to choose 10 of these hymns at random via lightning-generated atmospheric noise. In total according to wordcounttools.com, they came to 3110 words, Dale-Chall Index 9.8, indicating they are easily understood by those at College Freshman-Junior level at least. The 311 word per-hymn figure indicates the Rig Veda contains 320,000 words, the equivalent of 800 400-word pages.
The wordcounttools.com program produced a list of top keywords in the 10 randomly selected hymns:
1. thou - 37 times (7.0%)
2. us - 34 times (6.5%)
3. indra - 28 times (5.3%)
4. thy - 26 times (5.0%)
5. agni - 23 times (4.4%)
6. thee - 22 times (4.2%)
7. come - 20 times (3.8%)
8. mighty - 18 times (3.4%)
9. gods - 16 times (3.0%)
10. strong - 15 times (2.9%)
11. hath - 14 times (2.7%)
12. thine - 14 times (2.7%)
13. heaven - 13 times (2.5%)
14. soma - 13 times (2.5%)
15. god - 11 times (2.1%)
16. vayu - 11 times (2.1%)
17. waters - 11 times (2.1%)
18. men - 10 times (1.9%)
19. strength - 10 times (1.9%)
20. savitar - 9 times (1.7%)
Looking at this list I eliminated words like thou, us, thy, and thee because they are commonly found regardless of text subject-matter. I removed or translated words like Indra and Agni because they are Indo-centric. I removed Soma because people are not sure what Soma was and because society has been under a cloud of cannabis-persecution. I came up with a list of 10 Rig-Vedic keywords to plug into a search engine:
fire mighty gods strong heaven god wind waters men strength - Google Search
The top result in the above search?
The Attributes of God by A.W. Pink-The Power of God
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6/7/2015Rig Veda is the oldest text of Hinduism- the average estimate is that it dates to 1300 BC, 3300 years ago. It contains 10 books that in total contain 1028 hymns. Though exposed to the study of the Vedas all my life, I always assumed that they were verbose boring redundant and impossible to get through without sacrificing excess of time and energy. But today, I used random.org to choose 10 of these hymns at random via lightning-generated atmospheric noise. In total according to wordcounttools.com, they came to 3110 words, Dale-Chall Index 9.8, indicating they are easily understood by those at College Freshman-Junior level at least. The 311 word per-hymn figure indicates the Rig Veda contains 320,000 words, the equivalent of 800 400-word pages.
The wordcounttools.com program produced a list of top keywords in the 10 randomly selected hymns:
1. thou - 37 times (7.0%)
2. us - 34 times (6.5%)
3. indra - 28 times (5.3%)
4. thy - 26 times (5.0%)
5. agni - 23 times (4.4%)
6. thee - 22 times (4.2%)
7. come - 20 times (3.8%)
8. mighty - 18 times (3.4%)
9. gods - 16 times (3.0%)
10. strong - 15 times (2.9%)
11. hath - 14 times (2.7%)
12. thine - 14 times (2.7%)
13. heaven - 13 times (2.5%)
14. soma - 13 times (2.5%)
15. god - 11 times (2.1%)
16. vayu - 11 times (2.1%)
17. waters - 11 times (2.1%)
18. men - 10 times (1.9%)
19. strength - 10 times (1.9%)
20. savitar - 9 times (1.7%)
Looking at this list I eliminated words like thou, us, thy, and thee because they are commonly found regardless of text subject-matter. I removed or translated words like Indra and Agni because they are Indo-centric. I removed Soma because people are not sure what Soma was and because society has been under a cloud of cannabis-persecution. I came up with a list of 10 Rig-Vedic keywords to plug into a search engine:
fire mighty gods strong heaven god wind waters men strength - Google Search
The top result in the above search?
The Attributes of God by A.W. Pink-The Power of God
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