The Rigveda

Rigveda

The Rigveda is an ancient Indian sacred collection of Vedic Sanskrit hymns...

contains a number of dialogue hymns (s), hymns that are in the form of dialogue

Dialogue

Dialogue is a literary and theatrical form consisting of a written or spoken conversational exchange between two or more people....

s, representing the earliest surviving sample of this genre, and can be argued to be an early precursor of Sanskrit drama

Sanskrit drama

The earliest-surviving fragments of Sanskrit drama date from the 1st century CE. The Mahābhāṣya by Patañjali contains the earliest reference to what may have been the seeds of Sanskrit drama. This treatise on grammar from 140 BCE provides a feasible date for the beginnings of theatre in India.Its...

. They are found in the youngest part of the Rigveda (RV 1 and RV 10), dating to roughly the 12th to 10th centuries BC, with the exception of the older River hymn (RV 3.33), where the rivers answer in reply to Vishvamitra's prayer.

• 1.179 Agastya
  Agastya
  Agastya was a Tamil/Vedic Siddhar or sage. Agastya and his clan are also generally credited with uncovering many mantras of the Rig Veda, the earliest and most revered Hindu scripture, in the sense of first having the mantras revealed in his mind by the Supreme Brahman...
  
   and Lopamudra
  Lopamudra
  Lopamudra was an ancient Indian female philosopher. She was the wife of the sage Agastya. Together with her husband she is credited with spreading the fame of the Lalita sahasranama . She is also called Kaushitaki and Varaprada...
  
   (5 trishtubhs, 1 brhati)
• 3.33 Vishvamitra and the Rivers
  Rigvedic rivers
  Rivers, such as the Sapta Sindhu , play a prominent part in the hymns of the Rigveda, and consequently in early Vedic religion...
  
   (12 trishtubhs, 1 anushtubh)
• 10.10: dialogue of Yama and Yami (12 anushtubhs)
• 10.51 Agni
  Agni
  Agni is a Hindu deity, one of the most important of the Vedic gods. He is the god of fire and the acceptor of sacrifices. The sacrifices made to Agni go to the deities because Agni is a messenger from and to the other gods...
  
   and the gods (9 trishtubhs)
• 10.86 Indrani, Indra
  Indra
  ' or is the King of the demi-gods or Devas and Lord of Heaven or Svargaloka in Hindu mythology. He is also the God of War, Storms, and Rainfall.Indra is one of the chief deities in the Rigveda...
  
  , the "he-ape" Vrshakapi and his wife
• 10.95: dialogue of Pururavas
  Pururavas
  Pururavas was the first king of the Aila dynasty or the Somavamsha. According to the Vedas, he is a mythological entity associated with the Surya and Usha , and is believed to resided in the middle region of the cosmos. The Rig Veda states that he was a son of Ila and was a pious king...
  
   and Urvashi (18 trishtubhs)
• 10.183: dialogue between the sacrificer and his wife (3 trishtubhs)