Listen to an excerpt from Holst's Choral Hymns From The Rig Veda – Group 3, performed at the 2013 BBC Proms by the BBC Singers and the Nash Ensemble, conducted by Nicholas Kok.

The Rig Veda has over a thousand hymns (sukta) that are arranged in ten chapters (mandala). The first and the tenth mandalas have precisely 191 hymns, indicating that the arrangement of hymns is not ...

BENGALURU: A western vocal concert based on hymns inspired from the ancient text of the Rig Veda is not something you hear of everyday. However, such a unique concert will be staged by a choir from ...

A Swede conducting an all-male Indian choir; music composed by an Englishman on the Rig Veda - a concert cannot get more global than this. Singing the Sanskrit hymns weren't difficult for Olsson.

A new study challenges the long-held belief that Vedic culture was isolated to India. Research reveals a musical link between the Rig Veda and a 3,000-year-old hymn from the Mediterranean, ...

The Rig Vedic hymns were composed over 3,000 years ago, most probably by children of men who migrated into India with horses from Central Asia, and married local women. The hymns mostly reveal the ...

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For centuries, the Vedic civilization has been regarded as unique to India, based deeply in the subcontinent, which helped to give shape to its spiritual, philosophical, and cultural identity. The Rig ...