A Vedic Reader for Students

This reader contains thirty hymns of the Rigveda in the original Samhita and Pada texts, with transliteration, translation, explanatory notes, an introduction, and vocabulary. Designed as a companion volume to Macdonell's Vedic Grammar for Students, it is designed primarily for students who, while acquainted with Classical Sanskrit, are beginners in Vedic.

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)