Decipherable Rigveda : The Earliest Indo-European Poetry
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Format
Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
9359665118
ISBN-13
9789359665115
Publisher
Motilal Banarsidass Publishing House
Imprint
Motilal Banarsidass Publishing House
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Aug 24th, 2024
Print length
332 Pages
Weight
502 grams
Dimensions
15.00 x 22.30 x 2.30 cms
Product Classification:
PoetryPoetry / PoemsOriental & Indian philosophyEast Asian and Indian philosophy
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An independent linguistic approach to the text reveals sophisticated ancient poetry, characterised by verbal abstraction and metrical complexity.
The Decipherable Rigveda reprints ten articles, along with one previously unpublished piece, in which the author challenges the long-standing assumption that the earliest Sanskrit poetic anthology is ritually incomprehensible. Impeccably preserved by the tradition that named it the Rigveda, these poems have been consistently misunderstood throughout history. The book includes four seminal word studies, the first of which demonstrates that a word traditionally translated as "ritual pressing stone" actually refers to a man who is singing.
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