The text consists of the Samhita, Brahmanas, Aranyakas and Upanishads, each of them acting as layers that were added over centuries to the older ones. The Rigveda Samhita is the core text and is a collection of 10 books (mandalas) with 1,028 hymns (sūktas) in about 10,600 verses of varying age and length. The "family books", mandalas 2-7, are the oldest part of the Rigveda and the shortest books; they are arranged by length (decreasing length of hymns per book) and account for 38% of the text.
The hymns are arranged in collections each dealing with a particular deity: Agni comes first, Indra comes second, and so on. They are attributed and dedicated to a rishi (sage) and his family of students. Within each collection, the hymns are arranged in descending order of the number of stanzas per hymn. If two hymns in the same collection has equal numbers of stanzas then they are arranged so that the number of syllables in the metre are in descending order.
Vedas (1294)
Upanishads (481)
Puranas (610)
Ramayana (834)
Mahabharata (330)
Dharmasastras (163)
Goddess (471)
Bhakti (240)
Saints (1293)
Gods (1272)
Shiva (341)
Journal (143)
Fiction (49)
Vedanta (325)
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