Dear Antonia,

I too thank you (and Bernhard Forssman) compiling the collection, and enhancing 
it with German and English translations and various references and notes. 
Congratulations!

Best wishes,

Elliot

> On Jul 10, 2024, at 9:18 AM, Matthew Kapstein via INDOLOGY 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Thank you for making this useful collection freely and easily available!
> 
> Matthew T. Kapstein
> Professor emeritus
> Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, PSL Research University, Paris
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> The University of Chicago Divinity School
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> https://vajrabookshop.com/product/the-life-and-work-of-auleshi/
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> https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501716218/tibetan-manuscripts-and-early-printed-books-volume-i/#bookTabs=1
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> https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501771255/tibetan-manuscripts-and-early-printed-books-volume-ii/#bookTabs=1
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> On Wednesday, July 10th, 2024 at 2:17 PM, Antonia Ruppel via INDOLOGY 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Dear all,
>> 
>> With apologies for cross-posting, just a brief announcement to say that the 
>> Vedic Reader (details below) I have co-edited is now available as an 
>> open-access download and also in paperback format via the publisher’s 
>> website:
>> 
>> https://hasp.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/catalog/book/1380
>> 
>> It is a textbook, so in addition to making it usable for class and 
>> self-study as flexibly as possible, we also made sure the physical 
>> dimensions are such that there is plenty of space for student notes, and 
>> that the book will lie open flat on a table. All the non-Vedic bits are 
>> completely bilingual (English and German), so in spite of the title being 
>> half German, you do not need any German to use the book.
>> 
>> All my best,
>> Antonia
>> 
>> 
>> Veda-Sätze – Vedic Sentences
>> 
>> In den altindischen Veden findet man Sätze mit sehr verschiedenen Inhalten, 
>> darunter religiöse Aussagen ("Varuṇa ist wahrhaftig der Götter König"), 
>> Lebensweisheiten ("Das Denken ist schneller als die Rede") oder auch banale 
>> Beobachtungen ("Gattin und Gatte waschen einander den Rücken"). Die 
>> bekannten Erlanger Indogermanisten und Indologen Karl Hoffmann (1915-1996) 
>> und Johanna Narten (1930-2019) haben bei ihrer jahrzehntelangen Arbeit an 
>> den Veda-Texten solche Sätze in der Originalsprache gesammelt. Diese 
>> Sammlung von 863 Kurztexten wurde von Antonia Ruppel und Bernhard Forssman 
>> zweisprachig (Englisch und Deutsch) mit Übersetzungen und einem 
>> vollständigen Vokabular versehen und wird hier erstmals veröffentlicht.
>> 
>> The ancient Indian Vedas contain sentences of rather varied content, 
>> including religious statements ("Varuṇa truly is the king of the gods"), 
>> words of wisdom ("Thought is quicker than speech") or even banal 
>> observations ("Wife and husband wash each other's back"). The well-known 
>> Erlangen Indo-Europeanists and Indologists Karl Hoffmann (1915-1996) and 
>> Johanna Narten (1930-2019) collected such sentences in the original language 
>> during their decades of work on the Vedas. Antonia Ruppel and Bernhard 
>> Forssman have furnished this collection of 863 short texts with translations 
>> and a complete vocabulary in two languages (English and German) and are 
>> publishing it here for the first time.
>> 
>> 
>> --
>> Dr Antonia Ruppel FRAS
>> Postdoctoral Researcher, AVINDIA Project, SOAS University of London
>> Lehrbeauftragte, Lehrstuhl für vergleichende und indogermanistische 
>> Sprachwissenschaft, LMU München
>> The Cambridge Introduction to Sanskrit: cambridge-sanskrit.org 
>> <http://cambridge-sanskrit.org/>
>> An Introductory Sanskrit Reader: brill.com/sanskrit 
>> <http://brill.com/sanskrit>
>> The Sanskrit Studies Podcast: sanskritstudiespodcast.com 
>> <http://sanskritstudiespodcast.com/>
>> Latest Video: What is the 'Oldest Language'? 
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