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This book explores the surprisingly sophisticated philosophical and cosmological ideas found within the Rigveda. The Rigveda, a collection of over a thousand ancient hymns, is the oldest surviving Indo-European religious text. The author argues that the Rigveda, despite its religious nature, contains a complex system of speculative cosmology, comparable to those of the Presocratics, Plato, and later thinkers. The author examines ideas of causality, generation, and the nature of the divine within the text, teasing out connections between concepts that at first glance may seem disparate. The author's approach allows us to trace the earliest philosophical and speculative ideas in the Indo-European tradition and places this text within the broader context of early philosophical thought.
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