READINGS

‘If I had to recommend a single general book about the Vedas … certainly outdated’ : Renou 1953.

Half a century later and taking account of the enormous increases in knowledge and insight, but for those who read German: more than half of Witzel, Michael. 2003. Das alte Indien (‘Ancient India’).

München: C.H. Beck.—‘For those who read German, Geldner remains the best guide:’ Geldner, Karl Friedrich. 1951–57. Der Rig-Veda aus dem Sanskrit ins Deutsche übersetzt und miet einem laufenden Kommentarversehen.

Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press; London: Geoffrey Cumberledge, Oxford University Press; Leipzig: Otto Harrassowitz. Indices and Notes left by Geldner have been edited and completed by: Nobel, Johannes. 1957. Namen-und Sach Register etc., same publishers .

—‘But (added in the proof) see the Preface’: for those who read German, there was another surprise announcement on the Indology website of 25 October 2007: Witzel, Michael and Toshifumi Goto. 2007. Rig-Veda. Das heilige Wissen. Erster und zweiter Liederkreis (‘The Rigveda. Sacred Knowledge. First and Second Circle’), Verlag der Weltreligionen, pp. 889.

‘For the Yajurveda’ : Keith’s translation is mentioned in # 127.

For the Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa, see #238, though the complete Eggeling consists of five volumes and was published between 1882 and 1900.

—‘The Artharvaveda has remained’: in India, it is now somewhat more accessible thanks to Ghosh 2002.