Pinnacles of India's Past: Selections from the Ṛgveda

by Walter H. Maurer

Book Overview

The Ṛgveda is the oldest of the books that comprise the scriptures of Hinduism. While its age cannot be accurately determined, it can be said with reasonable certainty that it must have existed in its present form at least as early as 1000 BC. It consists of 1,028 hymns, arranged, according to the form in which the Ṛgveda has been transmitted, in ten divisions, called maṇḍalas. This volume consists of a selection of hymns, translated into...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0915027623
• ISBN13: 9780915027620
• Release Date: December 1986
• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
• Length: 350 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.