Prehistoric India to 1000 B.C. c14.72

c14.72

Perhaps this could be claimed as the earliest known Indo-European pastoral poem: at all events it gives a glimpse of lost secular poetry in Sanskrit of the early phase, describing the everyday life of the people, that we would do much to recover. But the main purpose behind the *Rigveda* is the sterner stuff of war, and to this we must now turn.