Compiled by Z.O. Pakholok. Ts Lutsk, 2004. - 82 pages, 10 illustrations.Why was the publication carried out specifically in Lutsk? There are several reasons for this. One of them is the connection of Volyn with India in the bylinas. Duke Stepanovych says about himself that he is: From the Volyn-town, from Halych, From that Sorochyna from far away, From that rich India... The second, direct reason is the birth in Lutsk of Mykola Krushevsky, practically the first translator of the hymns of the Rigveda into Russian (Kazan, 1878). From the second follows the third reason. It was precisely in Lutsk that the Rigveda first sounded in the Ukrainian language, because Lesya Ukrainka in 1890 made a re-singing of twelve hymns. And as James Bond said, if some event happens to you for the first time, it is an accident; if this event repeats, it is a coincidence; if the event happens for the third time, there is reason to think about it. The conclusions may be the following, according to karma, the main law of Indian spiritual heritage: the publication in Lutsk at the beginning of the 21st century of a work dedicated to the Rigveda, the last monument of the Indo-European community and the first literary monument of ancient Indian literature, is entirely natural, despite the fact that today any evidence, apart from the stay in Lutsk in the 1930s of an Indian, a specialist in Esperanto, about the direct contact of the two cultures, is absent. But a single chain was woven: the 19th century - Mykola Krushevsky and Lesya Ukrainka (the person and the text); the 20th century - the Indian, who, just like the Ukrainian Yaroshenko, is engaged in Esperanto and appears in Lutsk; the 21st century - the realization of the text - the printing of the publication dedicated to the Rigveda, carried out by Z.O. Pakholok. Zinaida Pakholok, a lecturer at Lesya Ukrainka Volyn State University, republished eight hymns of the Rigveda and provided accompaniment of other translations of these hymns: by V.O. Kocherhina, the author of the first Sanskrit-Russian dictionary; by T.Ya. Yelizarenkova, who carried out the translation into Russian of all ten mandalas of the Rigveda (1028 hymns); by V.I. Tykhomyrov, a translator who showed interest in verse translations of the hymns; by Lesya Ukrainka, who carried out a re-singing from the French language (with simultaneous correction against the German translation); by Pavlo Ritter, the first Ukrainian Sanskritologist, who translated the hymns from Sanskrit into Ukrainian. Those interested finally received the opportunity to convince themselves from their own experience whose translation of the most famous hymn About the Creation of the World, or Cosmogony, or Pramātma, is the best. The translations of the hymns are preceded by an introduction, where the compiler sets out briefly the biography of Mykola Krushevsky and provides a concise overview of Indology in general and the history of translations of the Rigveda in particular. She also carefully selected illustrations presenting the cities where M. Krushevsky lived, photographs, autographs, and so on. With her publication, Z.O. Pakholok restored in memory the origins of the turn to the Rigveda, a unique monument in the history of mankind. What causes surprise is not the author's turn to Vedic themes, but the determination of the method of publication - "at the compiler's expense." It is strange that at the beginning of the year designated as the Year of Poland in Ukraine, among all educational institutions, including the university, where there are undoubtedly history and philology faculties, departments, where courses in world literature, cultural history, religious studies are taught, not a single one was found that would finance a publication connected with the name of M. Krushevsky, a Pole by origin, one of the founders of modern linguistics. It is regrettable that in the year of the opening of the Center of Lesya Studies at Volyn State University, which bears the name of Lesya Ukrainka, again no funds were found for the publication of 300 copies of the book, the subject of which has a direct relation to the translation activity of the great poetess. And considering the general interest in the spiritual heritage of India, considering the print runs of V. Kanyhin's "The Path of the Aryans" and the speed with which this book disappeared from the shelves, one could even have made money on the publication of "Eight Hymns of the Rigveda."