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The Rigveda- The Earliest Religious Poetry of India (Set of 3 Volumes)

The Rigveda- The Earliest Religious Poetry of India (Set of 3 Volumes)

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DETAILS : 
  • Publisher ‏ : Oxford University Press
  • Author : Stephanie W. Jamison, Joel P Brereton
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ January 1, 2021
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 3995 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0197626955
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 9780197626955
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2000 g

ABOUT THE BOOK 

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.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR 

Stephanie W. Jamison is a renowned scholar of Sanskrit and Vedic studies, with a focus on the Rigveda. Joel P. Brereton is also an expert in Vedic studies, with a focus on the Rigveda and its cultural context. Both authors bring their expertise to this comprehensive translation and analysis. Jamison and Brereton have collaborated on several projects, producing authoritative works on the Rigveda.
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