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The Roots of Hinduism: The Early Aryans and the Indus Civilization
Asko Parpola
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Paperback. In this pioneering book, Asko Parpola traces the Indo-Iranian speakers from the Aryan homeland north of the Black Sea through the Eurasian steppes to Central, West and South Asia, presenting new ideas on the origin and formation of the Vedic literature and rites, and the great Hindu epics. Num Pages: 384 pages, 190 illus. BIC Classification: HRAX; HRG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 257 x 179 x 16. Weight in Grams: 610.
Hinduism has two major roots. The more familiar is the religion brought to South Asia in the second millennium BCE by speakers of Aryan or Indo-Iranian languages, a branch of the Indo-European language family. Another, more enigmatic, root is the Indus civilization of the third millennium BCE, which left behind thousands of short inscriptions in a forgotten pictographic script. Discovered in the valley of the Indus River in the early 1920s, the Indus civilization had a population estimated at one million people, in more than 1000 settlements, several of which were cities of some 50,000 inhabitants. With an area ... Read more
Hinduism has two major roots. The more familiar is the religion brought to South Asia in the second millennium BCE by speakers of Aryan or Indo-Iranian languages, a branch of the Indo-European language family. Another, more enigmatic, root is the Indus civilization of the third millennium BCE, which left behind thousands of short inscriptions in a forgotten pictographic script. Discovered in the valley of the Indus River in the early 1920s, the Indus civilization had a population estimated at one million people, in more than 1000 settlements, several of which were cities of some 50,000 inhabitants. With an area ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Weight
623g
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780190226923
SKU
V9780190226923
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About Asko Parpola
Asko Parpola is Professor Emeritus of Indology and South Asian Studies at the University of Helsinki.
Reviews for The Roots of Hinduism: The Early Aryans and the Indus Civilization
Written with scholarly rigor and great erudition, this volume will be warmly received by supporters of the views that the Indus Valley script is a proto-Dravidian language and that continuities exist between IVC and Hinduism. Highly recommended.
CHOICE A highly innovative and welcome volume, bringing together the linguistic and archaeological evidence for the cultures ... Read more
CHOICE A highly innovative and welcome volume, bringing together the linguistic and archaeological evidence for the cultures ... Read more