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The Rigveda : the earliest religious poetry of India

translated by Stephanie W. Jamison and Joel P. Brereton

（South Asia research）

Oxford University Press, 2017

: set
v. 1 : pbk
v. 2 : pbk
v. 3 : pbk

Uniform Title: Vedas. R̥gveda

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"First issued as an Oxford University Press paperback, 2017"--T.p. verso

Includes bibliographical references (p. [1663]-1670) and indexe

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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.

Table of Contents

VOLUME I Acknowledgements Introduction Mandala I Mandala II Mandala III Mandala IV VOLUME II Mandala V Mandala VI Mandala VII Mandala VIII VOLUME III Mandala IX Mandala X Bibliography Index of Hymns by Deity and Poet

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