Description: Further DetailsTitle: The Two Oldest Veda ManuscriptsCondition: NewEAN: 9780674988262ISBN: 9780674988262Publisher: Harvard University PressFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 03/01/2019Item Height: 254mmItem Length: 178mmContributor: Michael Witzel (Edited by), Qinyuan Wu (Assisted by)Language: EnglishSubtitle: Facsimile Edition of Vājasaneyi Saṃhitā 1–20 (Saṃhitā- and Padapāṭha) from Nepal and Western Tibet (c. 1150 CE)ISBN-10: 0674988264Description: 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 Vājasaneyi Saṃhitā of the White Yajurveda and its contemporaneous sister text, a Vājasaneyi Padapāṭha, 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.Country/Region of Manufacture: USBook Series: Harvard Oriental SeriesGenre: Philosophy & SpiritualityAuthor: Michael WitzelRelease Year: 2019 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Publication Name: The Two Oldest Veda Manuscripts
Title: The Two Oldest Veda Manuscripts
EAN: 9780674988262
ISBN: 9780674988262
Release Date: 03/01/2019
Release Year: 2019
Contributor: Qinyuan Wu (Assisted by)
Subtitle: Facsimile Edition of Vājasaneyi Saṃhitā 1–20 (Saṃhitā- and Padapā
ISBN-10: 0674988264
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Series: Harvard Oriental Series
Book Title: Two Oldest Veda Manuscripts : Facsimile Edition of Vājasaneyi Saṃhitā 1-20 (Saṃhitā- and Padapāṭha) from Nepal and Western Tibet (C. 1150 CE)
Number of Pages: 184 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Topic: Hinduism / General, Hinduism / Sacred Writings
Item Height: 1 in
Publication Year: 2019
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Religion
Item Weight: 23.8 Oz
Item Length: 10 in
Author: Michael Witzel
Book Series: Harvard Oriental Ser.
Item Width: 7 in
Format: Hardcover
