Ṛṣis, the Poets of the Ṛgveda

The ṛṣis are the poets of the hymns of the Ṛgveda (see Vedas). Their poems follow the inherited patterns of Indo-Iranian, and sometimes even Indo-European, poetics, which, however, must be deduced from the vedic texts themselves. To some extent, the ṛṣis have described their composition technique in the very hy…