Rig Veda (Black Classics)Sanskrit hymns from the timeless world of myth and ritual the Rig Veda (c. 1200 900 BC), a collection of more than 1,000 hymns, represents the first extensive composition in any Indo European language. Fraught with paradox, the hymns are meant to puzzle, to surprise, to trouble the mind, writes Professor O Flaherty, who has selected and translated 108 hymns for this volume. Details of daily life, the rich symbolism and mechanism of Vedic ritual, the

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