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The Vedic hymns were sung in post glacial times (8,000BC) by poets who had inherited their knowledge or contents thereof from their antediluvian forefathers.

— Bal Gangadhar Tilak

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Swaraj is my birthright, and I shall have it!

Belief in the Vedas, many means, no strict rule for worship: these are the features of the Hindu religion.

The compilation of hymns into Sanhitas also appears to be a work of the early part of this period.

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Freedom is my birthright. I must have it.

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