Kaṭha Āraṇyaka
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Bibliographic Information
Kaṭha Āraṇyaka
（Harvard oriental series, v. 65）
Department of Sanskrit and Indian Studies, Harvard University , Distributed by Harvard University Press, 2004
Critical ed. with a translation into German and an introduction
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कथा आरण्यक
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Transliterated text and translated text on opposite pages
Includes bibliographical references (p. lxxiii-lxxix)
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Dating to the first half of the first millennium BCE, the Katha Aranyaka is a ritualistic and speculative text that deals with a dangerous Vedic ritual that provides its sponsor with a new body after death. In a new, never-before-published critical edition, Michael Witzel, using available manuscripts and, primarily, a color facsimile of a restored five-hundred-year-old Kashmiri birch bark manuscript preserved at Tubingen since 1895, presents this work which transitions the Vedic ritual into the philosophy of the Upanishads. The text is preceded by an extensive introduction in English dealing with Vedic ritualism and followed by a German translation as well as detailed variant readings and a verse index.
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