{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/sbe32/index.htm","path":"hin/sbe32/index.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe32/index.htm","text":"The Veda, I feel convinced, will occupy scholars for centuries to come, and will take and maintain for ever its position as the most ancient of books in the library of mankind.--F. Max M\u00fcller, p. xxxiVI, 58, 3. yas te p\u00fbshan navah ant\u00e1h samudr\u00e9 hirany\u00e1y\u00eeh ant\u00e1rikshe k\u00e1ranti. Thy golden ships, O P\u00fbshan, which move within the watery sky.--p. 61\nThis is one of the pinnacles of\n19th century western Vedic scholarship.\nIt is one of the three volumes in the\nSacred Books of the East\nwhich Max M\u00fcller, the series editor, was the sole author of.\nM\u00fcller focuses here on four dozen hymns in the Rigvedas\nto the 'Storm Gods:' the Maruts.\nDistant relations of Mars, Thor, and Ares, the Maruts are\nVedic-era deities associated with lightning, thunder, and the heavens.\nIf you excerpted just the translations, this would amount to about sixty pages.\nThe full book weighs in at 550 pages.\nThe true value of this work is M\u00fcller's deep analysis\nof the mythological, linguistic and poetic background of the hymns.\nThe index, which gives every root form of every word in the text,\nis practically a skeleton key to Vedic Sanskrit.\nPRODUCTION NOTES: This book took nearly two months of\nfocused work to transcribe, and\na total of four proof passes, as conventional OCR technology is unable\nto handle many of the aspects of this book at this point in time.\nUnicode implementations and\nweb browsers are only\nnow catching up with the typography used here.\nMy goal was to reproduce the book in its entirety with all of the\nmetrical markup in place.\nOnly in one case did I have to compromise: the start of elision is indicated\nby a Unicode combining double inverted breve (0x361); but the\nend of the overbarred section is indicated by a green asterisk, e.g.\nh\u0103\u0361r\u012d*bh\u012br (p. ciii).\n--John Bruno Hare, June 28th, 2008.","title":"Vedic Hymns, Part I (SBE32) Index","type":"page"}