The Four Vedas: Rgveda, Samaveda, Yajurveda, Atharvaveda (Set of 9 Volumes) - Sanskrit Text with English Translation

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Rgveda Samhita (Set of 4 Volumes)

 

Introduction
Origin of Speech

When we take to the study of language, the first and foremost question stands as to how when and where the language originated. More the linguists troubled their head in this direction, the less they achieved success. So far it has remained an unsolved conundrum. The more it was solved, the more it became, complex. Now many linguistic societies in the world have banned to raise this question again on the forum. Among the hosts of theories put forward on the origin of speech, one is regarding the divine origin of speech. So long it has been contended by almost all the scholars both at home and abroad that the Vedas are the propounder of this theory. In this connection a number of observations made by Vedic Seers have been cited, e.g.

 

‘samskrtam nama daivi vaganvakhyata maharsibhih’
‘daivim vacamayajanta devah tam visvarupah pasvo vadanti’ (RV. 8.100.11)

 

‘tasmat yajnat sarvahuta rcah samani jajnire
Chandamsi jajnire tasmad yajustasmadajayata’ (VS. 31.7)
‘aptopadesah sadhab’ (Nyayasastra 1.1)
‘agni vayuravibhyastu trayam brahma sanatanam
Dudoha yajna siddhyarthamrgyajuh sama laksanam’ (Svetasvatara Up. 6.18)

 

‘tebhyastaptebhyastravo vedajayanta agnerrgvedo
Vayoryajurvedah suryat samavedah’ (Satapatha Br. 11.5.8.3)
‘evam va are’ sya mahatobhutasya nihsvasitam
Etadyadrgvedo yajurvedah samavedo ‘tharvangirasah’

Simply quoting these observations without understanding the actual intended sense of the speakers, everybody assumed without applying mind that they support the divine origin of I speech. Nobody least bothered as to what sys