The Rigveda: 3-Volume Set (South Asia Research) by Stephanie W. Jamison,Joel P. Brereton

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By Stephanie W. Jamison,Joel P. Brereton

The Rigveda is the oldest Sanskrit textual content, which includes over a thousand hymns devoted to a variety of divinities of the Vedic culture. Orally composed and orally transmitted for numerous millennia, the hymns reveal awesome poetic complexity and spiritual sophistication. because the fruits of the lengthy culture of Indo-Iranian oral-formulaic compliment poetry and the 1st monument of particularly Indian religiosity and literature, the Rigveda is important to the certainty either one of Indo-European and Indo-Iranian cultural prehistory and of later Indian spiritual heritage and excessive literature. This new translation represents the 1st whole scholarly translation into English in over a century and makes use of the result of the serious examine of the final century at the language and the ritual process of the textual content. the point of interest of this translation is at the poetic suggestions and buildings used by the bards and at the ways in which the poetry intersects with and dynamically expresses the ritual underpinnings of the text.

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