Pinnacles of India’s Past: Selections from the Ṛgveda

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Pinnacles of India’s Past: Selections from the Ṛgveda

Name: Pinnacles of India’s Past: Selections from the Ṛgveda
ISBN: 9780915027620

Walter H. Maurer

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The Ṛgveda is the oldest of the books that comprise the scriptures of Hinduism. While its age cannot be accurately determined, it can be said with reasonable certainty that it must have existed in its present form at least as early as 1000 BC. It consists of 1,028 hymns, arranged, according to the form in which the Ṛgveda has been transmitted, in ten divisions, called maṇḍalas. This volume consists of a selection of hymns, translated into English and annotated, as well as short introductions to the Ṛgveda as a whole and the different themes around which the selected hymns are grouped, a bibliography, and an index.

Categories:

Poetry

Year:

1986

Publisher:

John Benjamins Publishing Company

Language:

english

Pages:

363

ISBN 10:

0915027623