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<p></p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>The &#039;&#039;&#039;Khilani&#039;&#039;&#039; ([[Sanskrit]]: खिलानि, Khilāni) are a collection of 98 &quot;[[apocryphal]]&quot; hymns of the [[Rigveda]], recorded in the &#039;&#039;{{IAST|Bāṣkala}}&#039;&#039;, but not in the &#039;&#039;{{IAST|Śākala}}&#039;&#039; [[shakha]]. They are late additions to the text of the Rigveda, but still belong to the &quot;Mantra&quot; period of [[Vedic Sanskrit]], contemporary with the [[Atharvaveda]], [[Yajurveda]], and [[Samaveda]], estimated to fall within the range of c. 1200–1000 BCE. The Khilāni hymns include the &#039;&#039;[[Śrī Sūkta]]&#039;&#039;, as well as the &#039;&#039;Kuntāpa&#039;&#039; hymns for the &#039;&#039;Mahāvrata&#039;&#039; ceremony, the New Year&#039;s festival of the early [[Kuru Kingdom]].&lt;ref&gt;Witzel, Michael, [http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~witzel/canon.pdf &quot;The Development of the Vedic Canon and its Schools : The Social and Political Milieu,&quot;] in Witzel, Michael (ed.) (1997), &#039;&#039;Inside the Texts, Beyond the Texts. New Approaches to the Study of the Vedas&#039;&#039;, Harvard Oriental Series, Opera Minora vol. 2, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, pp.284–285&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> <br /> ==References==<br /> {{Reflist}}<br /> ==Literature==<br /> *Isidor Scheftelowitz, &#039;&#039;Die Apokryphen des Rgveda&#039;&#039;, Breslau, 1906 [http://titus.uni-frankfurt.de/texte/etcs/ind/aind/ved/rv/rvkh/rvkh.htm ]<br /> *Usha R. Bhise, &#039;&#039;The Khila Suktas of the Rgveda: A Study&#039;&#039;, [[Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute]], Poona, 1995<br /> {{Hinduism-stub}}<br /> <br /> [[Category:Rigveda]]</div>

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