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Vedic Reader for Students (Containing Thirty Hymns of the Rigveda in the Original Samhita and Pada Texts,Translation, Explanatory Notes, Introduction, Vocabulary) - Hardcover

A. A. MacDonell

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9788120810174: Vedic Reader for Students (Containing Thirty Hymns of the Rigveda in the Original Samhita and Pada Texts,Translation, Explanatory Notes, Introduction, Vocabulary)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 8120810171 ISBN 13: 9788120810174
Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass, 2014

Synopsis

In conjunction with the author's Vedic Grammar, the Reader aims at supplying all that is required for the complete understanding of the selection. Acopious Index has been added for the purpose of enabling the student to utilize to the full the summary of Vedic philosophy which this book contains.

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About the Author

About the Author:

"Arthur Anthony Macdonell (1854 - 1930), 7th of Lochgarry, was a noted Sanskrit scholar.

Macdonell was born in India and educated at Gottingen University, then matriculated in 1876 at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, gaining a classical exhibition and three scholarships (for German, Sanskrit, and Chinese). He graduated with classical honours in 1880 and was appointed Taylorian Teacher of German at Oxford. In 1883 he obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Leipzig, and then became Deputy Professor of Sanskrit at Oxford in 1888, and Boden Professor of Sanskrit in 1899.

Macdonell edited various Sanskrit texts, wrote a grammar, compiled a dictionary, published a work on Vedic Mythology, and a wrote a history of Sanskrit." (Quote from wikipedia.org)

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Publisher
Motilal Banarsidass
Publication date
2014
Language
English
ISBN 10 
8120810171
ISBN 13 
9788120810174
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
294
Rating
  • 3.89 out of 5 stars
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