by Wendy Doniger · Penguin Classics · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140444025
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«The Rig Veda» is Wendy Doniger's anthology of Vedic hymns, published by Penguin Classics in paperback (352 pages, in English).
It brings together 108 hymns from the Rig Veda, one of the oldest sacred texts of Hinduism. The poems address creation, death, sacrifice and ritual, and evoke the gods and characters of Indian mythology. Wendy Doniger's translation and notes make its symbolism and poetry accessible.
The Rig Veda contains over a thousand hymns; this anthology brings together 108 of them, selected, translated and annotated by Wendy Doniger.
For the general reader and for scholars of Indian religion and mythology.
