The Religion of the Veda: The Ancient Religion of India (from Rig-Veda to Upanishads) c4.33

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The present course of lectures, the seventh in the series, was delivered by Professor Maurice Bloomfield, Ph.D., LL.D., Professor of Sanskrit and Comparative Philology at the Johns Hopkins University, and one of the leading authorities on Vedic Literature. His latest work, a Concordance of the Vedic hymns and prayer formulæ, covering 1100 pages, the embodiment of a life’s study, published as Vol. 10 of the Harvard Oriental Series, will ensure Professor Bloomfield a permanent place in the history of Vedic studies. Besides this he has edited from the manuscripts the Vedic ritual book, known as the Kauçika-Sutra; published a translation of the Hymns of the Atharva-Veda, included in Professor Max Müller’s Sacred Books of the East (Oxford, 1897); written a volume on the Literature and History of the Atharva-Veda, entitled: "The Atharva-Veda and the Gopatha-Brahmana" (Strassburg, 1889); and edited, in collaboration with Professor Richard Garbe of Tübingen, a chromophotographic reproduction of the unique birch-bark manuscript of the Kashmirian Atharva-Veda (3 vols., Baltimore, 1901). He has also contributed to the technical journals of this country and Europe numerous papers on linguistic, mythological, and ethnological topics in general, in addition to a large number of contributions on the interpretation, textual restoration, and religion of the Veda in particular.