The Rigveda

Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-0-19-937018-4
Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA

Buch, Englisch, 1728 Seiten, Format (B × H): 167 mm x 245 mm, Gewicht: 2910 g

Reihe: South Asia Research

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jamison, Stephanie W

Brereton, Joel P

Weitere Mitwirkende

Jamison, Stephanie W.

Brereton, Joel P.

Jamison, Stephanie W

Brereton, Joel P

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte

Über Autor(innen)

Stephanie W. Jamison is Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Joel P. Brereton is Associate Professor of Asian Studies at the University of Texas, Austin.