Intro to Veda: texts, myth, ritual, religion (on web)

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As there is so much misinformation out on the web

about earliest / Vedic India

(do a Google search!),

I have now decided to put out a 100 pp. long paper

with BASIC introductory information

on Vedic texts, religion, mythology and ritual.

 

http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~witzel/VedicHinduism.htm

 

as pdf: http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~witzel/vedica.pdf

 

 

This was composed jointly by S. Jamison and me, way back in 1992, and

--awaiting promised publication for many years-- has been circulated only

privately among students and colleagues. It will be updated, eventually,

to cover the past 10 years or so of scholarship.

 

A much shorter (almost equally dated) version will finally come out in a

vol. ed. by

A. Sharma: The Study of Hinduism. U. of SC Press 2003 (?)

 

 

Enjoy, MW

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Michael Witzel

Department of Sanskrit & Indian Studies, Harvard University

2 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge MA 02138, USA

 

ph. 1- 617-496 2990 (also messages)

home page: http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~witzel/mwpage.htm