#THE RIG VEDA PDF FREE#
Doniger captures only about 10% 1081028 hymns of the Rig Veda here and the verses deemed “interesting” are given a bit too much spotlight to be able to call this a representative selection This makes this anthology a very personal selection that reflects the interests and obsessions of the author than that of the seers of the original Vedic hymns The only good thing about these obsessions is that they invoke the most amusing sort of vitriol from certain cliues From a scholarly perspective they only diminish the bookThat being said Doniger’s work is a valuable counter point against most of the spiritual works that are commonly available when you go hunting for the Vedas For me the high point of these is Aurobindo’s commentary these works look at the Vedic Hymns in the light of the Upanishads but the Upanishads are almost certainly a later stage of evolution for the Vedic civilization Doniger avoids this outlook and courageously looks at the hymns as and in themselves giving free play to their focus on ritual material well being and naturalism and showing that the verses are less spiritual and symbolic in nature than normally asserted Doniger does not deny spiritual overtones especially when she allows the commentaries of Sayana to be directly put forth but instead shows that such aspects work nicely with the ritualistic and material aspects of the hymns to set up delicious riddling structures inside the hymns Now the problem with Doniger’s clearly biased selection is that the reader cannot be sure if this feature that comes to light is due to the sample itself or because this is in fact one of the important ways to understand the Vedas Seems like there is no avoiding a 3000 page tome when it comes to the Vedas which is what any realistic attempt which tries to incorporate the commentaries would come toAll in all this work if read in conjunction with Aurobindo will work as two nicely contrasting introductions to the reading of the Vedas In that way it is valuable Also the barrage of 1 star reviews by fake accounts should also be an incentive for you to check out the book But it is no Penguin “classic” That should be reserved for comprehensive and complete works
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