About the Author
KAREN THOMSON's online edition of the ground-breaking Metrically Restored Text of the Rigveda by Barend van Nooten and Gary Holland (1994) is accessible on the Linguistics Research Center (LRC) website at the University of Texas at Austin, and her book The Decipherable Rigveda, which reprints articles published over fifteen years, was published earlier this year by Motilal Banarsidass. Thomson studied English and Comparative Literature, with a focus on translation issues, at the universities of Bristol and Warwick, and then Sanskrit at the University of Edinburgh.
About the Book
This course on Rigvedic Sanskrit, a dialect that is "clearly not the direct ancestor of Classical Sanskrit" (Emeneau), provides a complete introduction to the language of the poems, and is designed to encourage renewed and independent study of this important anthology. Each lesson contains a fully-glossed passage, followed by grammar sections giving examples from throughout the poems. No prior knowledge of later Sanskrit is necessary. "The Sanskrit of the Rig-Veda four thousand years ago was as perfect an instrument for what its users wanted to say as its modern descendant, Hindi, or as English."
Vedas (1199)
Upanishads (501)
Puranas (633)
Ramayana (747)
Mahabharata (363)
Dharmasastras (167)
Goddess (506)
Bhakti (244)
Saints (1514)
Gods (1295)
Shiva (380)
Journal (184)
Fiction (61)
Vedanta (367)
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