A small section of the वेद . The वेद which issued from the face of God at the time of creation, consisted of 1,00,000 books in four sections, beginning with ऋक् . (Viṣṇu Purāṇa, Part III, Chapter 4) . The root " ऋच् " means "to praise". It got the name " ऋक् " meaning, "to praise gods".