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Can you share some thing to read up on this. Most of these claims do sound fantastical. I am not even sure how would one verify that Rigveda is an "unbroken" or

• gaigalas 1mo ago
  This is a well-known, established scholarly fact. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Padapatha https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Padapatha > The oral tradition of the Vedas (Śruti) consists of several pathas, "recitations" or ways of chanting the Vedic mantras. Such traditions of Vedic chant are often considered the oldest unbroken oral tradition in existence, the fixation of the Vedic texts (samhitas) as preserved dating to roughly the time of Homer (early Iron Age or 800 BC). https://ich.unesco.org/en/RL/tradition-of-vedic-chanting-00062 https://ich.unesco.org/en/RL/tradition-of-vedic-chanting-000... > The value of this tradition lies not only in the rich content of its oral literature but also in the ingenious techniques employed by the Brahmin priests in preserving the texts intact over thousands of years. To ensure that the sound of each word remains unaltered, practitioners are taught from childhood complex recitation techniques that are based on tonal accents, a unique manner of pronouncing each letter and specific speech combinations. --- It's not some obscure thing, a web search will yield tons of quality information about it.