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title: "The Rig Veda (Penguin Classics)"
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# The Rig Veda (Penguin Classics)

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## Customer Reviews

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    Best Version I have found
  

*by Z***L on Reviewed in the United States on August 10, 2020*

I love this version. The translation is broken down for ease of read but also keeps the spiritual and historical spirit behind the book. I use it for reference, research for my blog and self written book, and for my own religious practices. Great book for student or one seeking ancient Indo-European / Indian wisdom.

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    The best entry point into a very long and complex subject
  

*by H***A on Reviewed in the United States on July 7, 2018*

I am reading this now. I have looked at several other larger versions. These are accessible translations with excellent notes. Probably the best selection out of a much larger book that is likely to be available. Clearly the result of many years introducing this important work to American students. It should be your first choice.note:  Potential readers should be aware that Wendy Doniger and all her work is being aggressively trolled by Hindu Nationalists on many message boards like this with calls of "Lock her up" being directed towards anyone who might have critical things to say about India. Probably should not take a copy of anything with her name on it to India during election season.

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    Text is Wonderful but the Edition is Disappointing
  

*by A***S on Reviewed in the United States on July 22, 2018*

It is wonderful that Penguin published excerpts from the Rig Veda for Anglophones but this edition needs a thorough update.While the Rig Veda is one of the most difficult of the world’s great religious texts to understand, the introduction does nothing to explain anything about the origin, authors or cultural world of these texts.  And, while the inner textual apparatus is helpful this does not diminish the need for a thorough scholarly introduction to ground the reader.  Without such a guide, I can only recommend the Wikipedia article as a partial substitute.Furthermore, the selection of texts is highly biased towards the later parts of the Rig Veda.  I can understand selecting parts perceived as more relevant for Western readers, but I believe more than 90% of the Penguin edition is from books one or ten. Surely, there are hymns of interest in books two through nine that could have been included to provide a more representative sample.I gave the book three stars not because the Rig Veda is not worth reading, but because Penguin could put together a much better volume than this.  It has been almost forty years since this edition was published. I can’t believe there are not interested Sanskrit scholars who Penguin could commission to provide an update.  Text=beautiful  Edition=disappointing.

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