Der Rig-Veda : aus dem Sanskrit ins Deutsche übersetzt und mit einem laufenden Kommentar versehen / von Karl Friedrich Geldner.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Geldner, Karl F. (Karl Friedrich), 1853-1929.

Class of 1953 Fund.

Series:

Harvard oriental series ; 63.

Harvard Oriental series ; 63

Standardized Title:

Vedas. R̥gveda. German

Language:

German

Physical Description:

1 volume (various pagings) ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Dept. of Sanskrit and Indian Studies, Harvard University : Distributed by Harvard University Press, 2003.

Summary:

"The Rigveda is the oldest Indian and one of the oldest Indo-European texts. It is a collection of 1,028 hymns addressed to the gods, composed in highly poetic and notoriously difficult Archaic Sanskrit. Medieval Indian commentaries and especially the modern Western scholarship of the past 150 years have increasingly shed more light on its poetry, religion, and ritual as well as on its contemporary meaning. "The Rigveda has been translated in scholarly fashion only once during the twentieth century, and that was into German in 1951 by K. F. Geldner and published in three separate volumes of Harvard Oriental Studies, numbers 33, 34, and 35. Renou's French and Elizarenkova's Russian translations closely follow Geldner's. Geldner's volumes have long been out of print; they are reprinted here in one useful reference volume.

Notes:

Includes Geldner's last corrections and additions.

Reprint of vols. 33-36 of same series, originally published in 1951-1957.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1953 Fund.

ISBN:

0674012267

OCLC:

53394787