Vedic Hymns, Part I: Hymns to the Maruts, Rudra, Vayu, and Vata (Forgotten Books)

This is one of the pinnacles of 19th century western Vedic scholarship. It is one of the three volumes in the Sacred Books of the East which Max Müller, the series editor, was the sole author of. Müller focuses here on four dozen hymns in the Rigvedas to the 'Storm Gods:' the Maruts. Distant relations of Mars, Thor, and Ares, the Maruts are Vedic-era deities associated with lightning, thunder, and the heavens.

If you excerpted just the translations, this would amount to about sixty pages. The full book weighs in at 550 pages. The true value of this work is Muller's deep analysis of the mythological, linguistic and poetic background of the hymns. The index, which gives every root form of every word in the text, is practically a skeleton key to Vedic Sanskrit. (Quote from sacred-texts.com)

About the Author

Friedrich Max Muller (1823 - 1900)
Friedrich Max Muller (December 6, 1823 - October 28, 1900), more commonly known as Max Muller, was a German philologist and Orientalist, one of the founders of the western academic field of Indian studies, who virtually created the discipline of comparative religion. Muller wrote both scholarly and popular works on the subject of Indology, a discipline he introduced to the British reading public, and the Sacred Books of the East, a massive, 50-volume set of English translations prepared under his direction, stands as an enduring monument to Victorian scholarship. (Quote from wikipedia.org])

About the Publisher

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