The Rigveda is a collection of Vedic Sanskrit hymns It is one of the four canonical sacred texts of Hinduism known as the Vedas. The Rigveda is the book of mantras and contains the oldest form of the Sanskrit mantras. The text is organized in books known as Mandalas Each mandala consists of hymns called Sukta. Rigveda composed in an ancient form of Sanskrit about 1500 BCE, in what is now the Punjab region of India and Pakistan. It consists of a collection of 1,028 poems grouped into 10 “circles