Rig Veda: A Metrically Restored Text with an Introduction and Notes

by Barend Van Nooten and Berend A. Van Nooten

This new edition of the Rgveda, the oldest Indian text in archaic Sanskrit, is the first to present the text (in Roman characters) in its original metrical arrangement and in a form that most closely approximates the pronunciation of the time of its composition. Nevertheless, as all the restorations deviating from the received traditional Samhita text are printed in italics, the traditional text can easily be reconstituted without reference to other...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674769716
• ISBN13: 9780674769717
• Release Date: February 1995
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 700 Pages
• Weight: 3.59 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.4" x 7.3" x 10.3"