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The Aitareya Brahmanam of the Rigveda, containing the earliest speculations of the Brahmans on the meaning of the sacrificial prayers, and on the origin, performance, and sense of the rites of the Vedic religion

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  • First published:
  • 19th century
  • Language: English
  • Content type: Primary source

Book digitized by Google from the library of the New York Public Library and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb. 2 volumes D v. 1 Sanskrit text, with preface, introductory essay, and a map of the sacrificial compound at the Soma sacrifice. v. 2 Translation with notes

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Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Ancient religions, animism, and ritual.

  • Controlled discovery queries from internet-archive matched “Gods”. Retained metadata contains “Gods” in the subject metadata.

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    • Gods· in subject

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Internet Archive unrestricted pre-1900 PDF scan

1863-01-01T00:00:00ZLond. Trübner & CoEnglishPublic digitized item

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  • Contributing institution: New York Public Library
  • Digitization sponsor: Google
  • Discovery required Internet Archive search metadata to report a PDF format; the exact direct-file URL is added only after the item's file listing confirms an unrestricted PDF filename.
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Catalog id
internet-archive:aitareyabrahman00unkngoog
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