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State whether these sentence are true (T) or false (F).
The Rigveda was written for the first time by hand about 3500 years ago.

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True
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False
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Solution

The correct option is B False

The Vedas were likely written down for the first time around 500 BCE. However, all printed editions of the Vedas that survive in the modern times are likely the version existing in about the 16th century AD.

Vedas. The oldest scriptures of Hinduism, originally passed down orally but thenwritten in Vedic Sanskrit between 1500 and 500 BCE.


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