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|}Rig Veda contains 10552 mantras spread over 1028 Sooktas and 85 Anuvakas in 10 Mandalas. The topics dealt with in the Rig Veda Samhita can be classified into 3 groups.

|}Rig Veda contains 10552 mantras (about 10, 170 rks according to some other scholars) spread over 1028 Sooktas and 85 Anuvakas in 10 Mandalas. The topics dealt with in the Rig Veda Samhita can be classified into 3 groups. Only one Shaka (school) of the Rigveda is available today called as  '''Shaakala.''' Patañjali referred to twenty­ one Śākhā-Saṁhitās of the Ṛigveda; the '''Āśvalāyana-Saṁhitā''' being one of them (Ref 2).

The first group is in praise of the deities like अग्नि || Agni, इन्द्र || lndra, वरुण || Varuna, मित्र || Mitra and others. The Vedic deities numbering 33 are assigned to the three regions of the universe  viz. पृथ्वी || Prithvi (earth), द्यौस् || Dyaus (heaven) and अन्तरिक्ष || Antariksha (intermediary space). Although these deities appear as personifications of forces of nature, they are actually different facets of Brahman, the Only One Supreme Reality. The famous mantra on this point 

The first group is in praise of the deities like अग्नि || Agni, इन्द्र || lndra, वरुण || Varuna, मित्र || Mitra and others. The Vedic deities numbering 33 are assigned to the three regions of the universe  viz. पृथ्वी || Prithvi (earth), द्यौस् || Dyaus (heaven) and अन्तरिक्ष || Antariksha (intermediary space). Although these deities appear as personifications of forces of nature, they are actually different facets of Brahman, the Only One Supreme Reality. The famous mantra on this point 

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