Where is original copy of Vedas?
The original Vedas are preserved in the minds of Brahmins who have learned them by heart and transmitted them in perfect form to their students for over 7000 years. There are still gurukulas in India today in which young students learn to recite the entire text by heart.
How can I read original Vedas?
You can find the most authentic copy of the Vedas through the words of a Guru: there is no other truly authentic way. Many translations have been published by authors such as Griffith, Muller, Doniger (you probably shouldn’t trust everything you read there), and Jamison and Brereton (as referenced by Smarth-Ji below).
Which is the original Veda?
The Rigveda Samhita
The Rigveda Samhita is the oldest extant Indic text. It is a collection of 1,028 Vedic Sanskrit hymns and 10,600 verses in all, organized into ten books (Sanskrit: mandalas).
In which form was the Vedas written?
The Vedas existed in oral form and were passed down from master to student for generations until they were committed to writing between c. 1500 – c. 500 BCE (the so-called Vedic Period) in India.
Where is the real Rigveda kept?
Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute
They are in the Sharada and Devanagari scripts, written on birch bark and paper. The oldest of the Pune collection is dated to 1464. The 30 manuscripts of Rigveda preserved at the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute, Pune were added to UNESCO’s Memory of the World Register in 2007.
Can we read Rigveda?
The Veda simply cannot be translated. If you do, what you usually get is garbage.
Can we read Vedas?
You can now read Vedas, Brahmanas, Aranyakas, Upanishads Vedangas online. Govt of India website.
Who has written Rigveda?
Who wrote Rig Veda? According to tradition, Vyasa is the compiler of the Vedas, who arranged the four kinds of mantras into four Samhitas (Collections).