The first Hindu Scriptures take the form of hymns, of which a large number were, sooner or later, collected together known as Vedas. The most famous of all is the Rig-Veda, a collection of over a thousand hymns. These are addressed to gods who bear a strong resemblance to the gods of the Norsemen - the distant cousins, so to speak, of old Aryans.While the stories are not drawn wholly from the Vedas, some of the characters mentioned in this book appear more or ...
