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020			_a9780199475650
020			_a9780199475667
020			_a978019947674
082			_a294.5921204521 _bJAM
100			_aJamison, Stephanie W.
245			_aRigveda
260			_bOxford University Press, _c2017 _aNew Delhi:
300			_av-1. xiv, 644 p. v-2. 571 p. v-3. 477 p. _c24 cm.
365			_aINR _b7995.00
440			_aSouth Asia research
520			_aThe 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 religiosity and literature, the Rigveda is crucial to the understanding both of Indo-European and Indo-Iranian cultural prehistory and of later Indian religious history and high literature. 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.
650			_aMaṇḍala
650			_aCriticism
650			_aInterpretation
700			_aBrereton, Joel P.
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