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Review of The Rigveda (3 Volumes) by Stephanie W Jamison and Joel P Brereton Reading Religion May 2018
- Author(s):
- Narasimhananda Swami (see profile)
- Date:
- 2018
- Group(s):
- Cultural Studies, Hinduisms, Indology, Philosophy of Religion, Theology
- Subject(s):
- India
- Item Type:
- Book review
- Tag(s):
- Vedanta, Advaita Vedanta, veda, Indian Studies, vedic, Indian religions, Sanskrit
- Permanent URL:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/e5zb-m974
- Abstract:
- Translating a Sanskrit text is a highly challenging task. The difficulty only gets compounded if it is a Vedic text, because the Vedas use a Sanskrit that is quite different from the Sanskrit used in other literature. To translate the Rig Veda into English requires great patience and great scholarship. Stephanie W. Jamison and Joel P. Brereton have successfully achieved this mammoth task. The earlier English translation of Rig Veda by Ralph T. H. Griffith was done without taking into account the innumerable nuances of the tradition within which the Vedas originated. Jamison and Brereton make it clear that Griffith’s translation “conceals rather than reveals the wonders” of the Rig Veda (1.3).
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- Published as:
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- Publisher:
- American Academy of Religion - Reading Religion
- Pub. Date:
- May 2018
- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 5 years ago
- License:
- All Rights Reserved
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