The Two Oldest Veda Manuscripts

Facsimile Edition of Vajasaneyi Samhita 1-20 (Samhita- and Padapatha) from Nepal and Western Tibet (c. 1150 CE)
Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-0-674-98826-2
Verlag: Harvard University Press

Buch, Englisch, 184 Seiten, Format (B × H): 262 mm x 186 mm, Gewicht: 668 g

Reihe: Harvard Oriental Series

This volume offers unexpected insights into the history of the Veda, the earliest texts of South Asia, and their underlying oral transmission. In side-by-side facsimiles, Michael Witzel and Qinyuan Wu present the two oldest known Veda manuscripts, the Vajasaneyi Samhita of the White Yajurveda and its contemporaneous sister text, a Vajasaneyi Padapatha, recently found in western Tibet. These two manuscripts have retained an unusual style of representing the pitched accents, and their juxtaposition in this edition invites comparison between the oral Veda transmission of a thousand years ago and the recitation still maintained today. Both manuscripts are important testimonies for the history of the Vedas, their medieval transmission, and their first codification in writing. As such, they are of great interest to historians, Indologists, and scholars studying the interface of oral and written traditions.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Witzel, Michael

Wu, Qinyuan

Weitere Mitwirkende

Wu, Qinyuan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Hinduismus Hindu-Texte: Veden, Upanishaden
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Hinduismus Hinduismus: Heilige Texte & Traditionsliteratur

Über Autor(innen)

Witzel, Michael
Michael Witzel is Wales Professor of Sanskrit in the Department of South Asian Studies at Harvard University.

Wu, Qinyuan
Qinyuan Wu is a graduate student at the University of California, Berkeley.