| 释义 |
Rig-veda|rɪgˈveɪdə|
Also 8 Reig Beid, 8–9 Rigvéda, 9– Rgveda.
[Skr. ṛigveda, f. ṛic praise + veda knowledge: see Veda.]
The principal of the Vedas or sacred books of the Hindus.
1776N. B. Halhed Gentoo Laws Pref. p. xxxii, The Style of this Writer is clear, but very concise; a Specimen of it is here offered, in his Explanation of the first chapter of the Reig Beid. 1788Asiatic Res. I. 340 The Rigvéda consists of five sections. 1796Sir W. Jones tr. Inst. Hindu Law 104 The Rigvéda is held sacred to the gods. 1805Asiatic Res. VIII. 374 Tradition, preserved in the Puráńas, reckons sixteen Sanhitas of the Rĭgvéda. 1840H. H. Wilson Oxford Lect. i. 5 The text also..of one of the Vedas, the Rig-Veda, has been printed. 1886–7Trans. Philol. Soc. 658 Professor Max Müller says, on the metrical laws of the Rg Veda, ‘The object of the Prātiçākhya is to register all the facts which possess a phonetic interest’. 1899Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dict. Introd. p. xxi, Vedic literature begins with the Rig-veda (probably dating from about 1200 or 1300 b.c.). 1953Trans. Philol. Soc. 1952 125 In the Rgveda..the paradigms of devī́ and vṛkī́ḥ are essentially distinct. 1971Archivum Linguisticum II. 112 Circumstances have changed since the admirable study by Gonda on the present and aorist aspects of the Rgveda. 1974Encycl. Brit. Macropædia IX. 440/2 The Ṛgveda, Atharvaveda, and Sāmaveda are purely metrical texts mainly used by priests in their ritual.
transf.1895Salmond Doctr. Immort. i. v. 80 These ancient Accadian hymns, which Lenormant has named the Chaldæan Rig-Veda. |