Lutsyshyna О. The Idea of Human Being in the Rigveda.

The focus of the Rigveda (RV), the most ancient Indian literary monument and one of the foundations of Indian culture, is communication of a human with a god, the "deity - its devotee" relationship. The research task is also complicated by the necessity of reconstruction of the ideas on the basis of the fragments of the vast 1028 hymn collection that are isolated, barely concerted with each other, chronologically and geographically heterogeneous, and unclear because of language and style of the RV as well as temporal and spatial distance of its realities. The abovementioned specifics of the monument together with analysis of approaches of the researches aimed at a reconstruction of the idea of a human being in religious sources (first of all in Indian one's) conditioned our complex approach to the study of the RV idea of a human being. The aforesaid specifics of the RV also points to advisability of a contextual analysis of the large number of the RV words denoting a human being; thus, in our thesis this analysis precedes the application of the threefold approach, and verifies and completes its results.