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The Rigveda: 3-Volume Set
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The Rigveda: 3-Volume Set Hardcover - 2014

by Stephanie W. Jamison (Editor); Stephanie W. Jamison (Translator); Joel P. Brereton (Editor)


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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 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.

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  • Title The Rigveda: 3-Volume Set
  • Author Stephanie W. Jamison (Editor); Stephanie W. Jamison (Translator); Joel P. Brereton (Editor)
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition Slp
  • Pages 1728
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Oxford University Press, USA, 2014. 1
  • Date 2014-05-22
  • Features Bibliography
  • ISBN 9780199370184 / 0199370184
  • Weight 6.9 lbs (3.13 kg)
  • Dimensions 10.2 x 7.2 x 6.1 in (25.91 x 18.29 x 15.49 cm)
  • Themes
    • Aspects (Academic): Religious
    • Cultural Region: Asian - General
    • Cultural Region: Indian
    • Religious Orientation: Hindu
  • Dewey Decimal Code 294.592

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About the author


Stephanie W. Jamison is Professor of Asian Languages and Cultures and of Indo-European Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. She has published widely in Indo-European and Indo-Iranian linguistics, poetics, and mythology and is currently the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the American Oriental Society. Joel P. Brereton is Associate Professor of Asian Studies at the University of Texas, Austin. He has taught in both Religious Studies and Asian Studies programs and has written on the literature and religion of the Veda, especially the Rigveda and the early Upanishads, and on Vedic ritual.
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