RIG-VEDA SANHITÁ.

A COLLECTION OF

ANCIENT HINDU HYMNS,

CONSTITUTING

THE SECOND ASHTAKA, OR BOOK,

OF THE

RIG-VEDA;

THE OLDEST AUTHORITY FOR THE RELIGIOUS AND SOCIAL

INSTITUTIONS OF THE HINDUS.

TRANSLATED FROM THE ORIGINAL SANSKRIT.

BY H. H. WILSON, M.A., F.R.S.,

Member of the Royal Asiatic Society, of the Asiatic Societies of Calcutta and Paris, and of the
Oriental Society of Germany; Foreign Member of the National Institute of France;
Member of the Imperial Academies of Petersburgh and Vienna, and of the Royal
Academies of Munich and Berlin; Ph. D. Breslau; M. D. Marburg, &c.,
and Boden Professor of Sanskrit in the University of Oxford.

Bublished under the patronage of the Court of Directors of the East-India Company.

LONDON:

WM. H. ALLEN AND CO.,

7, LEADENHALL STREET.