Pinnacles of India's past : selections from the Rgveda / translated and annotated by Walter H. Maurer.

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Book
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English
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Amsterdam : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1986.
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1 online resource (xi, 350 pages).

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The R̥gveda 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 R̥gveda has been transmitted, in ten divisions, called mandalas. This volume consists of a selection of hymns, translated into English and annotated, as well as short introductions to the R̥gveda as a whole and the different themes around which the selected hymns are grouped.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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English
Contents
PINNACLES OF INDIA'S PAST SELECTIONS FROM THE RGVEDA; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Foreword; Table of contents; A Communication to the Reader; A Brief Introduction to the Rgveda; Selected Hymns; List of the Selected Hymns Arranged According to Their Sequence in the Rgveda; Bibliography; The series University of Pennsylvania Studies on South Asia
ISBN
  • 90-272-8631-0
  • 1-283-09297-2
  • 90-272-3386-1
  • 9786613092977
OCLC
714568553
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