Myth As Argument
Subtitle: The Brhaddevata As Canonical Commentary (Religionsgeschichtliche Versuche Und Vorarbeiten)
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Published: January 1997
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 549
ISBN-13: 9783110138054
Subjects: Hinduism; Non-Western philosophy; Sacred texts; Vedas.; Religion; Indian Philosophy; ôRgveda; Religion - World Religions; Vedas; India; Hinduism - General; Bôrhaddevatåa; âSaunaka.; Brhaddevata; Commentaries; Rgveda; Saunaka
First sentence: In his introduction to his massive commentary on the Rg Veda, the fourteenth century commentator Syana quotes the Mmms commentator Sabara on the meaning of the Veda, thus continuing an interpretive tradition over the span of more than a thousand years.