In conjunction with the author's Vedic Grammar, the Reader aims at supplying all that is required for the complete understanding of the selection. Acopious Index has been added for the purpose of enabling the student to utilize to the full the summary of Vedic philosophy which this book contains.

Vedic Reader for Students (Containing Thirty Hymns of the Rigveda in the Original Samhita and Pada Texts,Translation, Explanatory Notes, Introduction, Vocabulary)

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A.A. Macdonell

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Motilal Banarsidass

A practical Vedic grammar has long been a desideratum. It is one of the chief aids to the study of the hymns of the Veda. Many years ago in the preface to his edition of the Rigveda Max Muller said, 'I doubt not that the time will come when no one in India will call himself a Sanskrit scholar who cannot construe the hymns of the ancient Rishis of his country.' It is mainly due to the lack of such a work that the study of Vedic literature, despite its great linguistic and religious importance, has never taken its pro-per place by the side of the study of Classical Sanskrit. Till the publica-tion of the author's Vedic Grammar in 1910, no single work comprehensively presented the early language by itself. That work is, however, too extensive and detailed for the needs of the student, being intended rather as a book of reference for the scholar. This work is to a great extent based on the author's large Vedic Grammar, it is however by no means simply an abridgement of that work. For besides being differently arranged so as to agree with the scheme of his another work Sanskrit Grammar it contains much matter excluded from the Vedic Grammar. It, for example, adds a full treatment of Vedic Syntax and an account of the Vedic Metres. Thus it constitutes a supplement as well as an abridgement of the Vedic Grammar. The term 'Vedic' is here used to comprehend not only the metrical language of the hymns, but also the prose of Brahmanas and the Brahmana-like portions of the Atharvaveda and of various recensions of the Yajurveda.

A Vedic Grammar For Students

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Vedic Index of Names and Subjects contains all the information that can be extracted from Vedic literature on such topics as agriculture, astronomy, burial, castes, clothing, crimes, diseases, economic conditions, foods and drinks, gambling, kingship, law and justice, marriage, morality, occupations, polyandry and polygamy, the position of women, usury, village communities, war, wedding ceremonies, widow, burning, witchcraft, etc. The proper names have embraced not only persons, tribes, and peoples, but also mountains, rivers and countries. The geographical distribution on the Vedic population has also been presented. This valuable work furnishes complete information on social and political life of the Vedic population has also been presented. This valuable work furnishes complete information on social and political life of the Vedic Aryans, their manners, customs, superstitions and mythology as well as geographical data found in the Vedic literature.

Vedic Index of Names and Subjects (2 Volumes)

A. B. Keith

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According to Prof.A.L.Bhasham s celebrated The Wonder That was India... The Rigveda is the oldest religious text in the world.It is a collection of hymns for use at the Yajnas,sacrifices,of the Aryans.The Sama Veda is a collection of certain verses of the Rigveda arranged for liturgical purposes.The Yajur Veda contains sacrificial formulae to be pronounced by the priest during the Yajna.The Atharva Veda consits chiefly of magic spells and incantations,but contains a fe wpoems of great merit. The 1028 hymns of the Rig Veda are the work of many poets and may have covered as many as five centuries.Even the earliest of these is the product of along tradition,composed according to a strict metrical scheme and a settled literary convention.A number of these hymns show deep feelings for nature and some are secular.The fire God,Agni,was the intermediary between gods and men,for he consumed the offerings and carried them to gods.The wonderful Hymn of Creation ,the work of a very grat poet.marks the development of a high stage of thinking. The Vedas are part of the living Hindu tradition.Their hymns are recited at ceremonies and in the daily devotions of the religious. Presented in this book is a sampler of the hymns,chiefly from the Rigveda,for a general yet correct understanding of the religion and culture of those earliest times.The translations are by the nost respected authorities on the subject.

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