Katha Aranyaka : Critical Edition with a Translation into German and an Introduction Hardback
Part of the Harvard Oriental Series series
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Dating to the first half of the first millennium BCE, the Katha Aranyaka is a ritualistic and speculative text that deals with a dangerous Vedic ritual that provides its sponsor with a new body after death.
In a new, never-before-published critical edition, Michael Witzel, using available manuscripts and, primarily, a color facsimile of a restored five-hundred-year-old Kashmiri birch bark manuscript preserved at Tübingen since 1895, presents this work which transitions the Vedic ritual into the philosophy of the Upanishads.
The text is preceded by an extensive introduction in English dealing with Vedic ritualism and followed by a German translation as well as detailed variant readings and a verse index.
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:330 pages, 38 color plates, 39 halftones, 2 line drawings
- Publisher:The Department of Sanskrit and Indian Studies
- Publication Date:01/09/2005
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- ISBN:9780674018068
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:330 pages, 38 color plates, 39 halftones, 2 line drawings
- Publisher:The Department of Sanskrit and Indian Studies
- Publication Date:01/09/2005
- Category:
- ISBN:9780674018068
