Katha Aranyaka

Critical Edition with a Translation into German and an Introduction
Erscheinungsjahr 2005
ISBN: 978-0-674-01806-8
Verlag: The Department of Sanskrit and Indian Studies

Buch, Englisch, 330 Seiten, Format (B × H): 186 mm x 261 mm, Gewicht: 752 g

Reihe: Harvard Oriental Series

Dating to the first half of the first millennium BCE, the Katha Aranyaka is a ritualistic and speculative text that deals with a dangerous Vedic ritual that provides its sponsor with a new body after death. In a new, never-before-published critical edition, Michael Witzel, using available manuscripts and, primarily, a color facsimile of a restored five-hundred-year-old Kashmiri birch bark manuscript preserved at Tübingen since 1895, presents this work which transitions the Vedic ritual into the philosophy of the Upanishads. The text is preceded by an extensive introduction in English dealing with Vedic ritualism and followed by a German translation as well as detailed variant readings and a verse index.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Witzel, Michael

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Praktische Theologie Liturgik, Christliche Anbetung, Sakramente, Rituale, Feiertage
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Gottesdienst, Riten und Zeremonien
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Sonstige Religionen Östliche Religionen

Über Autor(innen)

Witzel, Michael
Michael Witzel is Wales Professor of Sanskrit in the Department of South Asian Studies at Harvard University.