wordProverbWordsA short traditional saying held as wisdom-speech. Not parable, and not riddle as a puzzle.Also known as AdageVedic traditionProverb appears in Vedic tradition.The Ṛgveda carries gnomic and proverb-like wisdom lines among hymn speech. A named proverb craft in that collection, not aphorism under another spelling alone and not a folklore dump.from Stephanie W. Jamison and Joel P. Brereton (translation) · The Rigveda, 2014 (this translation); hymns much olderappears in · sourced · documentedsourcesThe Rigveda · Stephanie W. Jamison and Joel P. Brereton (translation)Stephanie W. Jamison and Joel P. Brereton, The Rigveda: The Earliest Religious Poetry of India.