The Rigveda : the earliest religious poetry of India

Authors:Stephanie W. Jamison (Translator), Joel P. Brereton (Translator)

Summary: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.

Print Book, English, 2014

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Publisher: Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2014

Series:

South Asia research

Physical Description:3 v. (xiv, 1693 pages) ; 25 cm

ISBN:

9780199370184, 9780195179187, 9780199363780, 9780199363797, 9780199720781, 0199370184, 0195179188, 0199363781, 019936379X, 0199720789

OCLC Number / Unique Identifier:904274668

Contents:

Volume 1: ISBN: 9780195179187

Volume 2: ISBN: 9780199363780

Volume 3: ISBN: 9780199363797

Notes:

Translated from Vedic Sanskrit

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