Hymns from the Rigveda: Samhita Text
Hymns from the Rgveda: Samhita Text (English Translation, Notes with Pada Text, and Sayana's Commentary)
The book contains Samhita texts of Rigveda, the Padapatha, Sayana's commentary, English translation and notes. The notes after the Padapatha and Sayana's commentary on each mantra are of a lexicographical and exegetical nature. The lexicographical notes can substitute the complete Vedic dictionary. There are appendices on Grammar, Metre, Accent, Vedic mythology, and also some remarks on the age of the Rgveda. The quotations in Sāyaṇa's commentary have been traced, and compared, and the figures given where it was possible and practical. The English translation is very much useful to understand the Samhita texts which are very carefully selected in the present section. The Bibliography is a mine of important sourcebooks. The book was prepared by an eminent Vedic scholar Peter Peterson and it is edited further and thoroughly revised by R. Zimmermann, S.J. The students of Vedic studies will be highly benefited by this well-prepared book by a scholar of outstanding merit.
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