[INDOLOGY] [External] English translation of Sylvain Lévi's La Doctrine du Sacrifice dans les Brāhmaṇas

[Collins, Brian]

I want to express my gratitude to Herman for taking it upon himself to make such a seminal text available to the Anglophone audience and for doing such an excellent (unpaid) job. I have been anxiously looking forward to someone doing a Levi translation for over a decade. In fact, I was having a conversation with Roberto Calasso about it in 2015 and he immediately volunteered to write an introduction to any translation I could produce of this text. I told him that I could not produce any such translation, but I hoped someone else would. And now Herman has. Unfortunately, it has come at a time when the demands of living in a failed state and preparing for spring classes has not left me much time to read it. But what I have read so far is excellent. And I look forward to finishing it soon. Thanks again, Herman.


Brian

Prof. Brian Collins
(He/Him/His)
Drs. Ram and Sushila Gawande Chair in Indian Religion and Philosophy
Department of Classics and Religious Studies
234 Ellis Hall
Ohio University
Athens, Ohio
740-597-2103 (office)
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On Jan 8, 2026, at 6:45 PM, Herman Tull via INDOLOGY <indology at list.indology.info> wrote:


Use caution with links and attachments.
For those interested, I have recently uploaded an English translation of Sylvain Lévi's 1898 volume, La Doctrine du Sacrifice dans les Brāhmaṇas.

The work can be read/downloaded in .pdf format at archive.org<http://archive.org/>:

https://archive.org/details/the-doctrine-of-sacrifice-in-the-brahmanas_20251223

or at academia.edu<http://academia.edu/>

https://www.academia.edu/145862648/The_Doctrine_of_Sacrifice_in_the_Br%C4%81hma%E1%B9%87as

It can also be downloaded in epub format which loads nicely into tablets and ereaders:

<http://goog_1233282207/>
https://www.academia.edu/145841269/The_Doctrine_of_Sacrifice_in_the_Br%C4%81hma%E1%B9%87as_by_Sylvain_Levi

Please feel free to reach out to me with comments and corrections.

with regards,

Herman Tull


Herman Tull, PhD
Princeton, NJ

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