fgveda:- fg—veda/

fg—veda/ ¦ as, m. ‘Hymn – Veda’ or ‘Veda of praise’, the Ṛg-veda, or most ancient sacred book of the Hindūs (that is, the collective body of sacred verses called Ṛcas [see below], consisting of 1017 hymns [or with the Vālakhilyas 1028] arranged in eight Aṣṭakas or in ten Maṇḍalas;
Maṇḍalas 2-8 contain groups of hymns, each group ascribed to one author or to the members of one family;
the ninth book contains the hymns sung at the Soma ceremonies;
the first and tenth contain hymns of a different character, some comparatively modern, composed by a greater variety of individual authors;
in its wider sense the term Ṛg-veda comprehends the Brāhmaṇas and the Sūtra works on the ritual connected with the hymns), AitBr.;
ŚBr.;
Mn. &c.