  Establishing the chronology of the Vedas has interested scholars for the last
two centuries. The oldest among them is Rig-Veda which has ten Mandalas, each
composed separately. In this paper, we look at deciphering plausible pointers
to the internal chronology of the Mandalas, by focusing on Gods and Goddesses
worshiped in different Mandalas. We apply text analysis to the Mandalas using
Clustering Techniques based on Cosine Similarity. Then we represent the
association of deities with Mandalas using a grid-based Social Network that is
amenable to chronological analysis and demonstrates the benefits of using
Social Network Analysis for the problem at hand. Further, we analyze references
to rivers to arrive at additional correlations. The approach used can be
deployed generically to analyze other kinds of references and mentions and
arrive at more substantive inferences.
