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Vedic Mythology Hardcover – June 1, 2000

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This book occupies a very important position in the study of the history of religions. It traces the earliest stage in the evolution of beliefs which constitute the source of religious concepts of the majority of the modern Indians. The book is divided into seven chapters and is well documented with Sanskrit and general index. This book is definitely a valuable contribution to the Vedic mythology. Reprint of the 1897 German classic.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers; 0009 edition (June 1, 2000)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 189 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 8121509491
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-8121509497

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arielart

Excellent content but not a great reprint

Reviewed in the United States on February 8, 2011

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I bought this book through amazon.com and very much like it for the excellent information. However, this reprint does not have the original or any index. And the table of contents is located in the back. So this printing less useful than it might have been. The typography is just readable, like a copy of a copy, degraded.

The contents, though, are excellent, even though dry. It is, however, as an encyclopedic kind of work, fantastic.

It would just be far more useful and helpful if the publisher had taken a bit more care and pride in reprinting it. I give the book itself five stars but in this reprint can only give it three.

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Ian M. Slater

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Reviewed in the United States on February 29, 2004

This is a systematic presentation of the divine, human, animal and natural (plants, rivers, clouds, etc.) figures in early Sanskrit literature (mainly the Rig Veda, the Atharva Veda, and the early Brahmanas), with the small number of narratives which actually appear in the early hymns, and some information from medieval Sanskrit commentators. (Technically, some of this is in pre-Sanskrit Vedic, not the systematized Sanskrit of the Indian grammatical tradition....)

The much more elaborate narratives of the Epics and Puranas are not treated as such, and it is NOT a presentation of Hinduism as a living religion; those who want either one will be disappointed. The result is in many cases a list of epithets and attributes, and of family members, enemies, and rivals, at considerable remove in style from the lyrics from which the information has been gathered. It is a place to start looking for data, and is a guide to some (hardly all) of the contents of an extremely difficult body of ancient literature.

Although written in English, it was originally published in 1897-1898 as a part of a German publisher's series of monographs on what would now be called Indo-European Studies. Macdonnell was a leading scholar in his time, and his technical studies continue to be cited with respect. The book is now showing its age, and a replacement would be welcome, but as its second century begins it remains extremely helpful. (At least to someone who wants a concise overview of a huge amount of scattered material.) The proportion of hard data to theory is very high. Macdonnell's work was able to survive changing fashions, and, to judge from citations and bibliographies, was used happily by rival schools of interpretation right through the twentieth century. A rather heavy dependence on nature-mythology (especially solar) seems to show direct dependence on the great commentator Sayana as least as much as on Max Mueller's modern extensions of it, as one would expect of the author's mastery of the sources.

The Sanskrit index is quite comprehensive, and supplements the analytical arrangement of the material. Unfortunately, it lacks an index of texts cited. (In frustration at flipping pages to see if Macdonnell had mentioned a passage which did not have a major name, nor a word for which I somehow happened to know the Sanskrit, I once compiled my own index of his Rig Veda citations. I do not recommend this course to others!) The bibliographical material is, of course, long obsolete. The cautious reader will try to check Macdonnell's etymologies against modern works. He seems to have been fairly careful about accepting speculations not grounded in Sanskrit texts (not rushing to identify Vata and Wodan, for example), but of course, even the great Sanskrit grammarians were sometimes wrong....

The copy I have used for years was printed in India, by a different publisher, with a date of 1974. The paper has not stood up well to the passing decades, and I hope that more recent reprintings will prove more durable. As long as a copy is clearly printed and complete, however, and so long as the reader keeps its limits in mind, the book should be an extremely useful tool.

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The book is good but I see a lot of typos on my ...

Reviewed in the United States on April 12, 2016

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The book is good but I see a lot of typos on my Kindle Glare free, instead of letters I see hashes, back slashes, spaces where there shouldn't be and the like.
It needs to be looked at because I don't think is properly centered in the page.

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Dirk D. Anderson

Vedic Mythology By: Arthur Anthony Macdonell

Reviewed in the United States on March 9, 2005

I like this one.

Uncommon,enigmatic,and interesting.

Somewhat scholarly,but not stylized. Anything but dry

and fossilized.

Although I hesitate to draw a comparison,somewhat like

a Vedic counterpart to a good Biblical commentary.

Moderately challenging;with page after page of alluring

imagery and anticipation. Not a huge book but has a lot

of intricate content.

Transliterated proper nouns and terms provide some

practice for those interested in Sanskrit;those who

are not will not find it problematic.

These anthropomorphic deities represent early man's

attempt to explain the forces of nature. Like nature

this literary tapestry is unpredictable,beautiful,and

at times cruel.

The quality of vagueness contributes to a sense of

mystery. Yet there is a hint of a fundamental unifying

principle.

Ample selections from the Vedas with commentary

throughout.

Critical thinking and a dash of poetic imagination,this

book might be your cup of tea.

Works equally well as a stand-alone treatment of the

subject,or stimulus for further study.

Has become one of my favorites;I hope you like it too.

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