Ezourvedum A French Veda of the Eighteenth Century
| Other author | Rocher,Ludo Editor |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company |
| Description | 214 p. 23.000 x 015.000 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Series | University of Pennsylvania Studies of South Asia Ser. Vol. 1 |
| Summary | Annotation The Ezourvedam, used by Voltaire among others, as sourcebook for the most ancient of religions, was thereupon found to have been a fraud. Actually it was composed by a Christian the text shows him to have been a French Jesuit missionary, who did not necessarily know Sanskrit in order to convert Hindus to Christianity. The controversy surrounding the spurious Veda continues, involving a number of scholars and missionaries particularly in the question of whether or not the Veda was composed in Sanskrit or French. In tracing the history of the Ezourvedam Ludo Rocher adds a number of points, one being that the text was definitely first written in French with a view to a later Sanskrit translation or, more likely, to one of several modern Indian vernaculars. This edition is based on the manuscripts of Voltaire and Anquetil du Perron, and, especially, on a third manuscript preserved at the Bibliotheque National in Paris, wrongly catalogued there as Yajurveda. This edition is therefor markedly different from the 1778 edition by the Baron de Sainte-Croix. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 9789027233820 |
| ISBN | 9027233829 (Trade Cloth) Out of Print |
| Standard identifier# | 9789027233820 |
| Stock number | 00003516 |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |