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 > > Associate > The University of Chicago Divinity School > > https://ephe.academia.edu/MatthewKapstein > > https://vajrabookshop.com/product/the-life-and-work-of-auleshi/ > > https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501716218/tibetan-manuscripts-and-early-printed-books-volume-i/#bookTabs=1 > > https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501771255/tibetan-manuscripts-and-early-printed-books-volume-ii/#bookTabs=1 > > https://brill.com/edcollbook/title/60949 > > Sent with Proton Mail <https://proton.me/> secure email. > > 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'? >> <https://youtu.be/3r95Vx9oN_A?si=HBKGtO-Zoc00o_4k> > > _______________________________________________ > INDOLOGY mailing list > [email protected] > https://list.indology.info/mailman/listinfo/indology Elliot M. Stern 552 South 48th Street Philadelphia, PA 19143-2029 [email protected] 267-240-8418
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