The Rigveda: A Guide
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 15 April 2020
- ISBN 9780190633363
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages284 pages
- Size 143x216x22 mm
- Weight 434 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
The Rigveda is a monumental text in both world religion and world literature, yet outside a small band of specialists it is little known. Composed in the latter half of the second millennium BCE, it stands as the foundational text of what would later be called Hinduism. This concise guide from two of the Rigveda's leading English-language scholars introduces the text and breaks down its large range of topics--from meditations on cosmic enigmas to penetrating reflections on the ability of mortals to make contact with and affect the divine and cosmic realms through sacrifice and praise--for a wider audience.
MoreLong description:
The Rigveda is a monumental text in both world religion and world literature, yet outside a small band of specialists it is little known. Composed in the latter half of the second millennium BCE, it stands as the foundational text of what would later be called Hinduism. The text consists of over a thousand hymns dedicated to various divinities, composed in sophisticated and often enigmatic verse. This concise guide from two of the Rigveda's leading English-language scholars introduces the text and breaks down its large range of topics--from meditations on cosmic enigmas to penetrating reflections on the ability of mortals to make contact with and affect the divine and cosmic realms through sacrifice and praise--for a wider audience.
MoreTable of Contents:
I. Introduction
A. What is the Rgveda: A Brief Overview
B. A significant moment
C. World literature and religion
II. Historical Context
A. Migration
B. Indo-Iranian background
II. Dating and Authorship
A. Dating
B. Oral tradition and composition
C. Poets and poetic lineages
IV. Structure of the Text
A. Collection and ordering of the hymns
B. The transmission of the text and the state of the transmitted text
C. Structure of the text
V. Social and Political Context
A. Way of life
B. Social organization
C. Kingship
D. Mundane daily life and the depiction of women
VI. Ritual
A. Overview
B. The Soma Sacrifice in later Vedic texts
C. Changes between Rgvedic ritual and middle Vedic ritual
D. Pre-Rgvedic ritual
E. The Rgvedic ritual model
F. Other types of ritual in the Rgveda
VII. The Gods
A. Overview
B. The major gods
VIII. Eschatology
IX. Rgvedic Poetry and Poetics
A. The purpose of Rgvedic poetry: the power of the word
B. The poet
C. The status of the poet
D. Homologies, semantic webs, secret names, and riddles
E. Praise and request in the R?gvedic praise hymn
F. Structures and types of R?gvedic hymns: Some organizing
principles
G. Imagery, metaphors, similes
H. Language
I. Meter
X. Canonical Status and the Reception of the R?gveda
A. The Rgveda in the srauta tradition
B. Rgvedic Schools
C. Transmission
D. Interpretation
E. Reception
F. Publication
G. Text and Translation
Selection of Rgvedic Hymns
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