[INDOLOGY] Publication announcement: new Vedic Reader

[Madhav Deshpande]

Congratulations Antonia and your colleagues for preparing this volume and
making it available. Best wishes,

Madhav

Madhav M. Deshpande
Professor Emeritus, Sanskrit and Linguistics
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
Senior Fellow, Oxford Center for Hindu Studies
Adjunct Professor, National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore, India

[Residence: Campbell, California, USA]


On Wed, Jul 10, 2024 at 5:18 AM Antonia Ruppel via INDOLOGY <
indology at list.indology.info> wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> With apologies for cross-posting, just a brief announcement to say that
> the Vedic Reader (details below) I have co-edited is now available as an
> open-access download and also in paperback format via the publisher’s
> website:
>
> https://hasp.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/catalog/book/1380
>
> It is a textbook, so in addition to making it usable for class and
> self-study as flexibly as possible, we also made sure the physical
> dimensions are such that there is plenty of space for student notes, and
> that the book will lie open flat on a table. All the non-Vedic bits are
> completely bilingual (English and German), so in spite of the title being
> half German, you do not need any German to use the book.
>
> All my best,
>        Antonia
>
>
> Veda-Sätze – Vedic Sentences
>
> In den altindischen Veden findet man Sätze mit sehr verschiedenen
> Inhalten, darunter religiöse Aussagen ("Varuṇa ist wahrhaftig der Götter
> König"), Lebensweisheiten ("Das Denken ist schneller als die Rede") oder
> auch banale Beobachtungen ("Gattin und Gatte waschen einander den Rücken").
> Die bekannten Erlanger Indogermanisten und Indologen Karl Hoffmann
> (1915-1996) und Johanna Narten (1930-2019) haben bei ihrer jahrzehntelangen
> Arbeit an den Veda-Texten solche Sätze in der Originalsprache gesammelt.
> Diese Sammlung von 863 Kurztexten wurde von Antonia Ruppel und Bernhard
> Forssman zweisprachig (Englisch und Deutsch) mit Übersetzungen und einem
> vollständigen Vokabular versehen und wird hier erstmals veröffentlicht.
>
> The ancient Indian Vedas contain sentences of rather varied content,
> including religious statements ("Varuṇa truly is the king of the gods"),
> words of wisdom ("Thought is quicker than speech") or even banal
> observations ("Wife and husband wash each other's back"). The well-known
> Erlangen Indo-Europeanists and Indologists Karl Hoffmann (1915-1996) and
> Johanna Narten (1930-2019) collected such sentences in the original
> language during their decades of work on the Vedas. Antonia Ruppel and
> Bernhard Forssman have furnished this collection of 863 short texts with
> translations and a complete vocabulary in two languages (English and
> German) and are publishing it here for the first time.
>
>
> --
> Dr Antonia Ruppel FRAS
> Postdoctoral Researcher, AVINDIA Project, SOAS University of London
> Lehrbeauftragte, Lehrstuhl für vergleichende und indogermanistische
> Sprachwissenschaft, LMU München
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