Author: Raimundro Pannikar
Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass
Year: 2006
Language: English
Pages: 937
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8120812808
Description
An Anthology of the Vedas for Modern Man and Contemporary Celebration, this is a book for meditation, for reading, as well as for thorough study at this wellspring of human wisdom.
This anthology collects the most crucial texts of the Indian Sacred Scriptures - in all more than 500 - newly translated into contemporary English. Dr Panikkar's principle has been to select and place together texts so as to offer a selection of texts that cover the full range of the 'The Vedic Experience' and at the same time to show how they manifest the universal rhythms of nature, history, and Man.
Excerpts are taken from the oldest hymns, such as the Rig Ved; from the Brahmanas, the Aranyakas, or Forest Treatises, and finally the Upanishads, which represent the mystical and philosophical culmination of the Vedas.
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