The Rigveda
Series: South Asia Research;
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 19 June 2014
- ISBN 9780199370184
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages1728 pages
- Size 259x183x154 mm
- Weight 3130 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
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.
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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 complete scholarly translation into English in over a century and utilizes the results of the intense research of the last century on the language and the ritual system of the text. The focus of this translation is on the poetic techniques and structures utilized by the bards and on the ways that the poetry intersects with and dynamically expresses the ritual underpinnings of the text.
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.
Table of Contents:
VOLUME I
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Mandala I
Mandala II
Mandala III
Mandala IV
VOLUME II
Mandala V
Mandala VI
Mandala VII
Mandala VIII
VOLUME III
Mandala IX
Mandala X
Bibliography
Index of Hymns by Deity and Poet
