Participles in Rigvedic Sanskrit: The Syntax and Semantics of Adjectival Verb Forms

by John J. Lowe

This book examines several thousand examples of tense-aspect stem participles in the Rigveda, and the passages in which they appear, in terms of both their syntax and semantics. The Rigveda is an ancient collection of sacred Indian hymns, written in Vedic Sanskrit, and is one of the oldest extant texts in any Indo-European language. It is also a poetic text in which deliberate obscurity is the governing aesthetic and in which the rules of language...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198701365
• ISBN13: 9780198701361
• Release Date: June 2015
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.2" x 9.2"