A New Approach to the Vedas

An Essay in Translation and Exegesis

Ananda K. Coomaraswamy (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

115 Seiten

2023
Manohar Publishers and Distributors (Verlag)
978-81-19139-08-8 (ISBN)

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Besides, Coomaraswamy offers his commentary based on the philological aspect, as the writers of the Vedas did not have previous knowledge of metaphysics, but had developed ontological knowledge from the existing Sanskrit sources.

The Vedas, over the centuries, were interpreted in different forms by different sampradayas, mystics, legalists and religious reformers. It has been subjected to interpretation and re-interpretation by Vedic scholars such as Adi Shankaracharya, Sayanacharya, Mahidhara, Dayananda Saraswati and so forth. This small volume by Coomaraswamy is a comparative study of the Vedas with other traditions, such as Christianity, Gnosticism, Sumerian, Sufi and other religious traditions, which is a modern approach adopted for understanding relationships of non-Indian and Indian values. The text follows a pattern comprising verses and the commentaries made by the author. The book contains the selected verses taken from the Rigveda, Brhadaranayaka and the Maitri Upanishads, written on issues, such as cosmogony, ontology and teleology.

Ananda K. Coomaraswamy (22 August 1877–9 September 1947) is a Ceylon-based metaphysician, historian, theorist, and philosopher of Indian art. He brought the Indian tradition of art into the western world.

Introduction
I Brahadaramyaka Upanisad
II Portions of the Maitri Upanisad
III Three Vedic Hynns
Notes
Appendix

Erscheinungsdatum	12.09.2023
Verlagsort	New Delhi
Sprache	englisch; Sanskrit
Maße	160 x 240 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Geschichte der Philosophie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Hinduismus
ISBN-10	81-19139-08-9 / 8119139089
ISBN-13	978-81-19139-08-8 / 9788119139088
Zustand	Neuware