The Vernacular Veda
Title | The Vernacular Veda PDF eBook |
Author | Vasudha Narayanan |
Publisher | Univ of South Carolina Press |
Pages | 298 |
Release | 1994 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9780872499652 |
Compares the religious poem "Tiruvaymoli" alongside the "Vedas."
The Veda. The Avesta. The science of language
Title | The Veda. The Avesta. The science of language PDF eBook |
Author | William Dwight Whitney |
Publisher | |
Pages | 442 |
Release | 1872 |
Genre | Language and languages |
ISBN |
Oriental and Linguistic Studies
Title | Oriental and Linguistic Studies PDF eBook |
Author | William Dwight Whitney |
Publisher | |
Pages | 436 |
Release | 1893 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Oriental and Linguistic Studies
Title | Oriental and Linguistic Studies PDF eBook |
Author | William Dwight Whitney |
Publisher | Forgotten Books |
Pages | 434 |
Release | 2017-12-19 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9780484097932 |
Excerpt from Oriental and Linguistic Studies: The Veda; The Avesta; The Science of Language If the reception accorded to this volume be sufficiently encouraging, it will perhaps be followed by another, com posed of essays on another class of themes. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
The Terminology of the Vedas and European Scholars
Title | The Terminology of the Vedas and European Scholars PDF eBook |
Author | Guru Datta Vidyarthi (Pandit.) |
Publisher | |
Pages | 46 |
Release | 1893 |
Genre | Vedas |
ISBN |
Encyclopedia of Hinduism
Title | Encyclopedia of Hinduism PDF eBook |
Author | Denise Cush |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 1129 |
Release | 2012-08-21 |
Genre | Reference |
ISBN | 113518979X |
Covering all aspects of Hinduism, this encyclopedia includes more ethnographic and contemporary material in contrast to the exclusively textual and historical approach of earlier works.
Origin of Vedas
Title | Origin of Vedas PDF eBook |
Author | K S Krishnan |
Publisher | Notion Press |
Pages | 601 |
Release | 2019-08-12 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 164587981X |
This book is primarily about the Rgveda, the avowed source text of all Hindu religious texts. It is a collection of 1028 mostly unrelated hymns. The language in which it is composed is known as ‘Vedic’, from which Sanskrit is believed to have evolved later. About a fifth of the poems are prayers addressed to what could be ‘Nature Gods’. Others cover a motley of subjects. About fifteen of these hymns relates to cosmogony, but differing in essentials. Vedic clearly belongs to the Indo-European language family. Apart from many cognate words that are common in all these languages, many of the stories mentioned in the Rgveda have a strong resemblance to mythologies in the other languages of the family; not just to the Zoroastrian ones, but also to those of Greek, Celtic, Nordic, Slavic, Hittite and others. Origin of Vedas also discusses a wide range of issues related to the origin and expansion of the Indo-European language family. The author has managed to collect together a lot of information about the Rgveda; some of which most would not have heard about earlier. Those interested in these may go through chapter 4 and 9.