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Sacred Books of the East. The Sacred Books of the East is a monumental 50-volume set of English translations of Asian religious texts, edited by Max Müller and published by the Oxford University Press between 1879 and 1910. It incorporates the essential sacred texts of Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism, Zoroastrianism, Jainism, and Islam.
Subject Area - subject area of the book; Topic - topic (within the subject area) Collection - belongs to a collection listed in the table above; Date - date (year range) book was written/composed; Reign of - king/ruler in whose reign this book was written (occasionally a book could span reigns) Reign Age - extent of the reign
It formed the basis for the first complete translation of this text into English, by philologist Max Müller in the Sacred Books of the East, a 50-volume set published by Oxford University Press between 1879 and 1910. [2] He became a Knight of the Order of the Dannebrog in 1888, Dannebrogsmand in 1891 and Commander 2nd degree in 1898.
Hindu scriptures are traditionally classified into two parts: śruti, meaning "what has been heard" (originally transmitted orally) and Smriti, meaning "what has been retained or remembered" (originally written, and attributed to individual authors).
The Rigveda (Vedic chant) manuscript in Devanagari, a scripture of Hinduism, dated 1500–1000 BCE.It is the oldest religious text in any Indo-European language. A Sephardic Torah scroll, containing the first section of the Hebrew Bible, rolled to the first paragraph of the Shema.
Roxburghe Club Books. [143] Sacred books and early literature of the East [144] Saga Library. [145] Six volume series published 1891–1905. A collection of Scandinavian sagas in Icelandic covering history, folklore, and language by British translator William Morris (1834–1896) [146] and Icelandic scholar Eiríkr Magnússon (1833–1913). [147]
He directed the preparation of the Sacred Books of the East, a 50-volume set of English translations which continued after his death. Müller became a professor at Oxford University , [ 3 ] first of modern languages, [ 4 ] then of comparative philology [ 3 ] in a position founded for him, and which he held for the rest of his life.
The oldest surviving versions of these tales are found in the ninth to 11th century texts of Zoroastrian tradition (i.e. in the so-called "Pahlavi books"). The legends run as follows: The twenty-one nasks ("books") of the Avesta were created by Ahura Mazda and brought by Zoroaster to his patron Vishtaspa (Denkard 4A, 3A). [10]