The Two Oldest Veda Manuscripts : Facsimile Edition of Vajasaneyi Samhita 1-20 (Samhita- and Padapatha) from Nepal and Western Tibet (c. 1150 CE) Hardback
Edited by Michael Witzel
Part of the Harvard Oriental Series series
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This volume offers unexpected insights into the history of the Veda, the earliest texts of South Asia, and their underlying oral transmission.
In side-by-side facsimiles, Michael Witzel and Qinyuan Wu present the two oldest known Veda manuscripts, the Vajasaneyi Sa?hita of the White Yajurveda and its contemporaneous sister text, a Vajasaneyi Padapa?ha, recently found in western Tibet.
These two manuscripts have retained an unusual style of representing the pitched accents, and their juxtaposition in this edition invites comparison between the oral Veda transmission of a thousand years ago and the recitation still maintained today.
Both manuscripts are important testimonies for the history of the Vedas, their medieval transmission, and their first codification in writing.
As such, they are of great interest to historians, Indologists, and scholars studying the interface of oral and written traditions.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:184 pages, 247 color photos
- Publisher:Harvard University Press
- Publication Date:01/03/2019
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- ISBN:9780674988262
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:184 pages, 247 color photos
- Publisher:Harvard University Press
- Publication Date:01/03/2019
- Category:
- ISBN:9780674988262
