Katha Aranyaka: Critical Edition with a Translation into German and an Introduction
Michael Witzel (editor)
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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Jahr:
2005
Verlag:
Harvard University Press
Sprache:
english
Seiten:
330
ISBN 10:
0674018060
ISBN 13:
9780674018068
Serien:
Harvard Oriental Series 65
Datei:
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english, 2005