rik
ऋच् ṛcA verse of praise, the basic unit of the Rigveda, whose name joins rik with veda.
Where this term appears
- The Four Fires Treatise
The book of praise The Rigveda is the eldest and the largest of the four. Its name joins rik , a verse of praise, with veda , knowledge.
- The Taittiriya Upanishad: the ladder of selves, from food to bliss Treatise
Within that is manomaya , the self made of mind, and its limbs are telling: they are the Vedas themselves, the Yajus for a head, the Rik and the Saman for its sides (2.3).