| Katha Aranyaka Critical Edition Contributor(s): Witzel, Michael (Editor), Witzel, Michael (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0674018060 ISBN-13: 9780674018068 Publisher: Harvard University Press OUR PRICE: $39.60 Product Type: Hardcover Published: September 2005 Annotation: ritualism and followed by a German translation as well as detailed variant readings and a verse index. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Eastern - Religion | Christian Rituals & Practice - General - Body, Mind & Spirit | Spiritualism - General |
| Dewey: 294.592 |
| Series: Harvard Oriental |
| Physical Information: 0.96" H x 7.31" W x 10.25" (1.64 lbs) 330 pages |
| Themes: - Religious Orientation - Christian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Dating to the first half of the first millennium BCE, the Katha Aranyaka is a ritualistic and speculative text that deals with a dangerous Vedic ritual that provides its sponsor with a new body after death. In a new, never-before-published critical edition, Michael Witzel, using available manuscripts and, primarily, a color facsimile of a restored five-hundred-year-old Kashmiri birch bark manuscript preserved at T bingen since 1895, presents this work which transitions the Vedic ritual into the philosophy of the Upanishads. The text is preceded by an extensive introduction in English dealing with Vedic ritualism and followed by a German translation as well as detailed variant readings and a verse index. |
Contributor Bio(s): Witzel, Michael: - Michael Witzel is Wales Professor of Sanskrit in the Department of South Asian Studies at Harvard University. |