Rigveda-Sanhita : liber primus, sanskrite et latine [editio princeps] / edidit Fridericus Rosen. Large paper issue.

Vedas. Rgveda. Mandala 1, hymns 1-121 [of 191]. Sanskrit & Latin. 1838. Editio princeps, edidit Fridericus Rosen.

Published by London: printed for the 1838. Quarto, Oriental Translation Fund,

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viii, 263, lxviii, [1: corrigenda] p.; 32 cm. [Publications of the Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland ; 48] Mandala [liber] 1 [in part: hymns 1-121 (of 191)], ashtaka [sectio] 1, adhyaya [lectio] 1-8, anuvaka [caput] 1-18,i, sukta [hymnus] 1-121. -- In main section (titled: Rik-Sanhita, id est hymnorum collectio), each page, handsomely printed at London by J. L. Cox and Sons, gives the Sanskrit text in devanagari at the top and transliterated in italic at the center, with Rosen's Latin version in roman below; at end: adnotationes, in Latin and Sanskrit. -- From unsigned memorial preface: `The present work, which forms a considerable part of the Rig Veda, appears in an imperfect state. It was the intention of the author [Friedrich August Rosen, 1805-37, professor of Sanskrit at University College, London] to publish the text with a transla tion, explanatory notes, and an index verborum, and to have prefixed to the whole a comprehensive view of the character and manners of the Hindoos in that early period to which the origin of the Vedas is to be referred. But a sudden death,inthe prime of life,and in the full vigour of his intellectual powers, just after he had completed his 32nd year, overthrew at once this great project, and interrupted an undertaking for which no one was so well qualified and prepared as himself. Text and translation only are complete. Of the notes not more than a fourth part is in a finished state. The text of this first edition. .is given from two MSS. .East-India Company, No. 2,133; the other, from.the private collection of Lady Chambers' with readings from six other East India House MSS.' -- Emeneau 31 -- This copy, withdrawn from the Athenaeum library, with special presentation title-page. Good quarter morocco, upper joint cracking. Worm hole, p. 219-xx.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Rigveda-Sanhita : liber primus, sanskrite et latine [editio princeps] / edidit Fridericus Rosen. Large paper issue.
• Publisher: London: printed for the 1838. Quarto, Oriental Translation Fund,
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First edition