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Dating to the first half of the first millennium bce, the "Katha Aranyaka" is a ritualistic and speculative text that deals with a dangerous Vedic ritual that provides its sponsor with a new body after death. In a new, never-before published critical edition, Michael Witzel, using available manuscripts and, primarily, a color facsimile of a restored five-hundred-year-old Kashmiri birch bark manuscript preserved at Tubingen since 1895, presents this work which transitions the Vedic ritual into the philosophy of the Upanishads. The text is preceded by an extensive introduction in English dealing with Vedic ritualism and followed by a German translation as well as detailed variant readings and a verse index.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: general

• Full title: Katha Aranyaka
• Subtitle: Critical Edition with a Translation into German and an Introduction
• Author: Michael Witzel
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 330
• EAN: 9780674018068
• ID: 04634720
• Publisher: The Department of Sanskrit and Indian Studies
• Weight: 776 g
• Dimensions: 258 × 185 × 24 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. September 2005

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