An object in this meaning is the same thing as an objective[?] or task[?]. It comes from old project terminology and refers to the act of actually performing something according to a plan, or rather "according to a project" (the word "project" used to mean "plan").
... Vedic, in which the Vedas, the earliest Sanskrit texts, were composed. The earliest of the Vedas, the R^igveda, was composed in the middle of the second millennium BC. The ...