Hindu scriptures
By: translated and edited by R.C. Zaehner.
Contributors: Zaehner, R. C. 1913-1974.
Series: Everyman's library ;; 64
Publisher: Knopf; Distributed by Random House; Everyman's Library
Published: 1992
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 411
Subjects: Hinduism -- Sacred books.
Description: Among the sacred books of India are the hymns of the Rig-Veda, the world's first recorded poems; the "magical texts" of the Athara-Veda; the stirring pantheistic speculations of the Upanishads, and the Bhagavad-Gita, a cosmic drama of divine self-revelation in human history on the field of human battle. Taken together they represent 3500 years of a continuous religious tradition that is multifarious, inclusive, and, at the same time, wedded to a central spiritual vision.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. xxxi).