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The Rigveda: the earliest religious poetry of India 3 by Stephanie W. Jamison, Joel P. Brereton (trans.) is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
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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
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- Author
- Stephanie W. Jamison, Joel P. Brereton (trans.)
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press; Oxford University Press, USA
- Published
- 2014
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780195179187
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Religion, Language Learning, Sacred Writings
- Rating
- 4.6 / 5 (24 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
Other editions & translations
- The Rigveda: 3-Volume Set (South Asia Research) (2017)
- The Rigveda : the earliest religious poetry of IndianVolume 1 (2014)
- The Rigveda: 3-Volume Set (South Asia Research) (2014)
- The Rigveda: the earliest religious poetry of India 2 (2014)
- The Rigveda : The Earliest Religious Poetry of India 3 Volume Sets (2014)
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