Reassessing Rigvedic Strata


 It is commonly assumed that linguistically the Rigveda a heterogeneous collection of texts. Since early days Vedic scholarship, researchers have tried to correlate grammatical properties with individual parts Rigveda, aiming at identifying layers and strata. In this article we review stratifications proposed in previous literature assess support for these strata by performing statistical analyses allomorphic linguistic features been claimed bear signals stratification. addition, run cluster analysis exploring how books are grouped given same data. Our results show once control metrical positioning, prosodic structure, content, allomorph distributions do not lend significant any stratifications. Moreover, favors assumption book 10 occupies special position, but overall differences across ten substantial.