Forgeries, Falsifications, Fictions, Fälschungen?: Some Early Modern European "Vedas"

This article examines—and rejects—the idea that, in the course of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Europeans who sought to obtain copies of the Vedas were repeatedly duped by having other works (purporting to be Vedas) passed off on them. The focus is on a text entitled "The Essence of...

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Main Author: Sweetman, Will (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Ruhr-Universität Bochum 2024
In: Entangled Religions
Year: 2024, Volume: 15, Issue: 1
Further subjects:B Forgeries
B Orientalism
B Vedas
B Secrecy
B Brahmins
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