[Lillie_Steins]

Dear Mr Indrajit,
If often get only such comments when I ask for what is sacred in Rig veda, Never once have I gotten a reply that stated, hey this is great/sensible in Rig veda. Please let us not get personal here. Please provide me with quotes from Rig veda that make it sacred. I always read that translated Rig veda is highly error prone. I understand that when we translate a literary creation in another language we do lose some of the originality but not the essence, English is after all not such an incapable language to convey thoughts. Let us follow any work snaskrit/english that you prefer, please show me some great philosophical stuff.

Food for though : the word Siva many claim to be of tamil origin, with the derivation coming from word sivapu for color Red, In Rig veda he is addressed as Rudra, the root being 'Rud', which means RED in almost all IE group of languages. It clearly says that the name siva was translated to rudra in vedic, but because the common man always used siva, that term still continues in India. Vedic friends claim that rudra means ferocious, that looks more like a conotation rather than a denotation, the latter yields to etymology.