The two oldest Veda manuscripts : facsimile edition of Vājasaneyi-Saṃhitā 1-20 (Saṃhitā- and Padapāṭha) from Nepal and Western Tibet (c. 1150 CE)

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The two oldest Veda manuscripts : facsimile edition of Vājasaneyi-Saṃhitā 1-20 (Saṃhitā- and Padapāṭha) from Nepal and Western Tibet (c. 1150 CE)

by Michael Witzel ; in collaboration with Qinyuan Wu

(Harvard oriental series, v. 92)

Dept. of South Asian Studies, Harvard University , Distributed by Harvard University Press, 2018

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Vedas. Yajurveda. Vājasaneyisaṃhitā

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Description

This volume offers unexpected insights into the history of the Veda, the earliest texts of South Asia, and their underlying oral transmission. In side-by-side facsimiles, Michael Witzel and Qinyuan Wu present the two oldest known Veda manuscripts, the Vajasaneyi Samhita of the White Yajurveda and its contemporaneous sister text, a Vajasaneyi Padapatha, recently found in western Tibet. These two manuscripts have retained an unusual style of representing the pitched accents, and their juxtaposition in this edition invites comparison between the oral Veda transmission of a thousand years ago and the recitation still maintained today. Both manuscripts are important testimonies for the history of the Vedas, their medieval transmission, and their first codification in writing. As such, they are of great interest to historians, Indologists, and scholars studying the interface of oral and written traditions.

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  • NCID
    BB28111290
  • ISBN
    • 9780674988262
  • Country Code
    us
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    engsan
  • Place of Publication
    Cambridge, Mass.,Cambridge, Mass.
  • Pages/Volumes
    180 p.
  • Size
    27 cm
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