Rigveda
- Idioma:
- anglès
- Completesa:
- Selecció o obra parcial
- Autoria:
- Anònima o composta
- Estat del text:
- Amb errors d'escaneig (mesura automàtica sobre tot el text, no revisada a mà) · 3 passatges il·legibles, exclosos de les respostes
- Extensió:
- ~110.000 paraules · 504 passatges
Cita aquesta obra
- APAVedes. (n.d.). The Rig Veda [Rigveda]. Digital reproduction: SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/ca/works/rig-veda/the-rig-veda
- MLAVedes. The Rig Veda [Rigveda]. Digital reproduction, SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/ca/works/rig-veda/the-rig-veda.
- ChicagoVedes. The Rig Veda [Rigveda]. Digital reproduction, SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/ca/works/rig-veda/the-rig-veda.
Referència de l'edició que reprodueix SigPhi: SigPhi n'és la reproducció digital, no l'editor. L'any de l'edició no consta a les metadades (per això «n.d.») i el traductor només hi surt quan consta.
De què tracta
El Rigveda, el text mes antic de l'India i un dels mes antics del mon: mil vint-i-vuit himnes en sanscrit vedic, transmesos oralment amb una precisio que costa de creure.
Context i història
Es va compondre cap al segon mil·lenni aC i es va conservar durant segles sense escriptura, memoritzat per families de sacerdots amb tecniques de recitacio creuada que permetien detectar qualsevol error: el text que llegim es probablement mes fidel que el de molts manuscrits medievals europeus. Els himnes son invocacions a Agni, Indra, Varuna, Soma i altres, per a rituals de foc. El que sorprèn el lector modern es la seva estranyesa: son textos d'una cultura que no tenim manera de reconstruir sencera, i molts passatges son foscos fins per als comentaristes indis antics. El famos himne 10.129, sobre l'origen del mon, acaba dient que potser ni el deu que el vigila des de dalt no ho sap.
Context editorial, no una font citable: a diferència dels passatges de l'obra, aquestes dades no es poden contrastar amb el corpus.
7 They anointed'^ the Man, the sacrifice® born at the beginning, upon the sacred grass.® With bim the gods, Sadhyas,^® and sages sacrificed. 8 From that sacrifice® in which everything was offered, the melted fat^ was collected, and he^ made it into those beasts who live in the air, in the forest, and in villages. 7 From that sacrifice in which everything was offered, the verses and chants were born, the metres were born from it, and from it the formulas were born.^ 10 Horses were born from it, and those other animals that have two rows of teeth;i^ cows were born from it, and from It goats and sheep were born. CREATION 11 When they divided the Man, into how many parts did they apporOdh him? What do they call his mouth, his two arms and thighs and feet? , 12 His mouth became the Brahmin; his arms were made mto the Warrior, his thighs the People, and from his feet the Servants were born.^® 1} The moon was bom from his mind; from his eye the sun was bom. Indra and Agm came from his mouth, and from'his vital breath the Wmd was born. 14 From his navel the middle realm of space arose; from his head the sky evolved. From his two feet came the earth, and the quarters of the sky from his ear. Thus they set the worlds m order. ij There were seven enclosmg-sticks^'^ for him, and thrice seven fuel-sticks, when the gods, spreadmg the sacrifice, bound the Man as the sacrifiaal beast. 16 With the sacrifice the gods sacrificed to the sacrifice,^® These were the first ritual laws.^® These very powers reached the dome of the sky where dwell the Sadhyas,^® the anaent gods.…