The Rig Veda Penguin Black Classics

This Penguin Black Classics edition of “The Rig Veda” presents an anthology of 108 Sanskrit hymns from the earliest and most revered of the four Vedas, dating roughly from 1200–900 BCE. Selected and translated by Wendy Doniger, the hymns illuminate creation, sacrifice, death, the role of women, the sacred plant soma, and the gods, offering a vivid window into early Indian mythology, ritual, and religious thought.