The Two Oldest Veda Manuscripts

Facsimile Edition of V?jasaneyi Sa?hit? 1-20 (Sa?hit?- and Padap??ha) from Nepal and Western Tibet (c. 1150 CE)

By: Michael Witzel (Editor), Qinyuan Wu (Contribution by)

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Hardcover | 1 March 2019 | Edition Number 1

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This volume offers unexpected insights into the history of the Veda, the earliest texts of South Asia, and their underlying oral transmission. In side-by-side facsimiles, Michael Witzel and Qinyuan Wu present the two oldest known Veda manuscripts, the V?jasaneyi Sa??hit? of the White Yajurveda and its contemporaneous sister text, a V?jasaneyi Padap??ha, recently found in western Tibet. These two manuscripts have retained an unusual style of representing the pitched accents, and their juxtaposition in this edition invites comparison between the oral Veda transmission of a thousand years ago and the recitation still maintained today. Both manuscripts are important testimonies for the history of the Vedas, their medieval transmission, and their first codification in writing. As such, they are of great interest to historians, Indologists, and scholars studying the interface of oral and written traditions.

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