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The oldest vedas is the

  1. Sama veda

  2. Rig veda

  3. Athara veda

  4. Yajur veda
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Explanation

The Rig Veda is the oldest of the four Vedas, composed around 1500-1200 BCE. It contains 1,028 hymns dedicated to various deities and is the oldest extant text in any Indo-European language. The other Vedas - Sama, Yajur, and Atharva - were composed later and are named here with slight spelling variations.

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