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Hindu Myths: A Sourcebook Translated from the Sanskrit

By Wendy Doniger

Book information

Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Year
2000
ISBN
9780141903750
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
478 kB (489286 bytes)
Series
Penguin Classics
Pages
\0
Topic
Religion
Time added
2023-10-13 16:04:22
hindu; vedic; dharma; faith; sanatan; sanatana; dh

Description

Recorded in sacred Sanskrit texts, including the Rig Veda and the Mahabharata, Hindu Myths are thought to date back as far as the tenth century BCE. Here in these seventy-five seminal myths are the many incarnations of Vishnu, who saves mankind from destruction, and the mischievous child Krishna, alongside stories of the minor gods, demons, rivers and animals including boars, buffalo, serpents and monkeys. Immensely varied and bursting with colour and life, they demonstrate the Hindu belief in the limitless possibilities of the world – from the teeming miracles of creation to the origins of the incarnation of Death who eventually touches them all.

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