Absent Vedas
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3962667 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Will Sweetman (0000-0002-8010-244X, University of Otago, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 139 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Publication date | 2021-09-19 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of the American Oriental Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-0279 • E-ISSN: 2169-2289 |
| Publisher | American Oriental Society (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.7817/jameroriesoci.139.4.0781 |
| OpenAlex | W3147000594 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 3 |
The Vedas were first described by a European author in a text dating from the 1580s, which was subsequently copied by other authors and appeared in translation in most of the major European languages in the course of the seventeenth century . It was not, however, until the 1730s that copies of the Vedas were first obtained by Europeans, even though Jesuit missionaries had been collecting Indian religious texts since the 1540s. I argue that the delay owes as much to the relative absence of the Vedas in India-and hence to the greater practical significance for missionaries of other genres of religious literature-as to reluctance on the part of Brahmin scholars to transmit their texts to Europeans
Art · Hinduism · Linguistics · Literature · Vedas · Classics · Historical and Linguistic Studies · Historical Linguistics and Language Studies · History · Philosophy
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,14 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2019 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |