Rig Veda API - urantia.dev

The API serves The Hymns of the Rigveda (Ralph T. H. Griffith, 1896) as JSON, one passage at a time, by the reference people use. The oldest Vedic hymns. It has 10,505 passages in 10 books. No key and no account.

Get a passage

# RV 10.129.1
curl https://api.urantia.dev/scriptures/rig-veda/10.129.1

{
  "data": {
    "corpus": {
      "slug": "rig-veda",
      "title": "The Hymns of the Rigveda",
      "translator": "Ralph T. H. Griffith",
      "year": 1896
    },
    "passages": [
      {
        "ref": "RV 10.129.1",
        "division": 10,
        "text": "THEN was not non-existent nor existent: there was no realm of air, no sky beyond it. What covered in, and where? and what gave shelter? Was water there, unfathomed depth of water?"
      }
    ]
  }
}

The slug rig-veda, the id rig-veda-griffith-1896, and the prefix rv all name this text.

References

Book, hymn, and verse, RV 10.129.1. GET /scriptures/rig-veda lists every book with its first and last reference.

Search

# By meaning
curl -X POST https://api.urantia.dev/scriptures/search/semantic \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"q":"your question","corpus":"rig-veda","limit":5}'
# By keyword
curl 'https://api.urantia.dev/works/search?q=your%20words&work=rig-veda'

Each passage also links to the closest paragraphs of the Urantia Papers: GET /scriptures/rig-veda/10.129.1/urantia-parallels. The world religions guide explains how the links are made, and the MCP server has the same calls for AI agents.

Source

Text: The Hymns of the Rigveda, translated by Ralph T. H. Griffith (1896)
Source: en.wikisource.org
License: Public domain in the United States
Notes: From Wikisource: book, hymn, verse (RV 10.129.1). The hymns that he gave only in his appendix or in Latin are not on those pages, so they are not here.