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Category : Hinduism
Languages : en
Pages : 458
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The Sacred Books of the East Described and Examined: Epics poems and Puranas: The Ramayana. The Mahabharata. The Vishnu Purana. 1st ed. 1896
Author: The Sacred Books of the East Described and Examined
Author: Friedrich Max Müller and the Sacred Books of the East
Author: Arie L. MolendijkPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019108705X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 247
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This volume offers a critical analysis of one the most ambitious editorial projects of late Victorian Britain: the edition of the fifty substantial volumes of the Sacred Books of the East (1879-1910). The series was edited and conceptualized by Friedrich Max Müller (1823-1900), a world-famous German-born philologist, orientalist, and religious scholar. Müller and his influential Oxford colleagues secured financial support from the India Office of the British Empire and from Oxford University Press. Arie L. Molendijk documents how the series has become a landmark in the development of the humanities-especially the study of religion and language-in the second half of the nineteenth century. The edition also contributed significantly to the Western perception of the 'religious' or even 'mystic' East, which was textually represented in English translations. The series was a token of the rise of 'big science' and textualized the East, by selecting their 'sacred books' and bringing them under the power of western scholarship.
The Atharva-Veda Described
Author: Catalogue
Author: Calcutta (India). Imperial libraryPublisher:
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Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 384
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The Bhagavad Gita
Author: Studies in the Upanishads
Author: Thomas Ebenezer SlaterPublisher:
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Category : Upanishads
Languages : en
Pages : 88
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The Sacred Books of the East
Author: The Sacred Books of the East
Author: Edward William WestPublisher:
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 568
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The Brahmanas of the Vedas
Author: Kenneth Somerled MacdonaldPublisher:
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Category : Brahmanas
Languages : en
Pages : 232
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