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The Rigveda
Stephaniew. Jamison
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Description for The Rigveda
Hardback. The first complete English translation in over a century of the Rigveda, the oldest Sanskrit text. Its thousand hymns, are crucial to the understanding of the Indo-Iranian oral tradition from which they emerged and the rich flowering of Indian religious and literary expressions that followed it. Translator(s): Jamison, Research Associate and Visiting Lecturer Linguistics Program Stephanie W (Harvard University University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Los Angeles); Brereton, Associate Professor of Asian Studies Joel P (University of Texas, Austin). Series: South Asia Research. Num Pages: 1728 pages. BIC Classification: HRAX; HRGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 176 x 267 x 153. Weight in Grams: 2564.
The Rigveda is the oldest Sanskrit text, consisting of over one thousand hymns dedicated to various divinities of the Vedic tradition. Orally composed and orally transmitted for several millennia, the hymns display remarkable poetic complexity and religious sophistication. As the culmination of the long tradition of Indo-Iranian oral-formulaic praise poetry and the first monument of specifically Indian religiousity and literature, the Rigveda is crucial to the understanding both of Indo-European and Indo-Iranian intellectual and aesthetic prehistory and of the rich flowering of Indic religious expression and Indic high literature that were to follow. This new translation represents the first ... Read more
The Rigveda is the oldest Sanskrit text, consisting of over one thousand hymns dedicated to various divinities of the Vedic tradition. Orally composed and orally transmitted for several millennia, the hymns display remarkable poetic complexity and religious sophistication. As the culmination of the long tradition of Indo-Iranian oral-formulaic praise poetry and the first monument of specifically Indian religiousity and literature, the Rigveda is crucial to the understanding both of Indo-European and Indo-Iranian intellectual and aesthetic prehistory and of the rich flowering of Indic religious expression and Indic high literature that were to follow. This new translation represents the first ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Number of pages
1728
Condition
New
Series
South Asia Research
Number of Pages
1728
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780199370184
SKU
V9780199370184
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About Stephaniew. Jamison
Stephanie W. Jamison is Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of California, Los Angeles. Joel P. Brereton is Associate Professor of Asian Studies at the University of Texas, Austin.
Reviews for The Rigveda
To translate the Rig Veda into English requires great patience and great scholarship. Stephanie W. Jamison and Joel P. Brereton have successfully achieved this mammoth task.
Swami Narasimhananda, Reading Religion
One might be expected to characterize in these pages a new, complete translation of the Rig Veda as 'precise,' 'careful,' 'philologically sound,' perhaps even 'illuminating' ... Brereton and ... Read more
Swami Narasimhananda, Reading Religion
One might be expected to characterize in these pages a new, complete translation of the Rig Veda as 'precise,' 'careful,' 'philologically sound,' perhaps even 'illuminating' ... Brereton and ... Read more