Vedic Metre (Classic Reprint): In Its Historical Development - Couverture souple

Edward Vernon Arnold

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1331931177 ISBN 13 : 9781331931171

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Unlock the mystery of ancient meter and language

Discover how a key work investigates the Rigveda, using metre as a guide to its history and development.

This edition frames a ambitious question: can the rhythm of thousands of verses reveal how the Rigveda grew over time? It outlines a method based on language and meter differences, argues for a four-period arrangement, and explains why certain hymns are considered later additions. The author compares prior scholars and shows how current readings can reshape our view of the text, while also acknowledging limits to detail.

• Learn how metrical patterns help separate core hymns from later additions
• Explore debates about pronunciation, vowel length, and textual authority
• See how past scholars’ methods informed or challenged the book’s approach
• Understand the gradual shifts in cadence across the Rigveda’s history

Ideal for readers seeking a clear, evidence-based look at how meter informs the history of an ancient collection, and for those curious about how linguistic analysis can illuminate literary evolution.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Excerpt from Vedic Metre: In Its Historical Development

In my view this question is to be answered in the affirmative. I believe that the formal scheme reached in this book, by which each hymn of the Rigveda proper is assigned to one of four successive periods, is a true adumbration of the historical development of the whole literature, and should be a real assistance to the study of its meaning. On the other hand, I do not for a moment-suggest that the materials permit of any accuracy in details. At the same time, I think it is conclusively shewn (if it has not been shewn long ago) that the hymns of the popular Rigveda are in a true sense later additions, and further that these too are spread over a long period of time.

The conclusions I have reached have been in their main outlines published by me in the following articles:

Lin the Rigveda (Festgruss an Rudolf von Roth, 1893, pp. 145-148).Literary Epochs in the Rigveda (Kz. xxxiv, pp. 297-344).Historical Vedic Grammar (Jaos. xviii2). Rigveda vii 33 (Kz. xxxvii, pp. 207-219).The second Mandala of the Rigveda (Kz. xxxvii, pp. 429-486).Rigveda vii 18 (Kz. xxxviii, pp. 491-496).Rigveda and Atharvaveda (Jaos. xxii, pp. 309-320).

These articles also contain my replies to the objections and criticisms which my propositions have called forth from several Vedic scholars.

Although my position has not yet won acceptance, I have received encouragement from more than one quarter to proceed to the publication of my views in a complete form. In so doing I have endeavoured to reduce controversy to a minimum, and to give instead with all possible fulness the materials from which I have drawn my own conclusions, but by which others in turn may be led to form more or less divergent views. I have not dropped the thread of historical theory which to my mind binds together in proper order a large collection of facts: but even if this thread be not altogether sound, the collections themselves can ha...

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1331931177
• ISBN 13: 9781331931171
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 353
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