"Within its soberly academic trio of hardback volumes, however, seethes an incoherent mix of mumbo-jumbo and misplaced obscenity, most of it apparently meaningless. It reads like a burlesque version, in the style of Hamlet Travestie, of a long lost original... Strangely, though, âspoked wheelsâ have been introduced twenty-two times into this translation, as a new interpretation of the word aratĂ. This epithet of the fire god was previously understood to mean âservantâ or âmessengerâ... Given the current frantic search for evidence of âspoked wheelsâ in the remains of the Indus Valley Civilization, the translation could even be considered irresponsible... As Hamlet Travestie slid into Doggâs Hamlet I found myself wondering: could this be a long-hatched plot by the Pentagon to destroy Hindu fundamentalism at its heart?"
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University of California, Los Angeles facultyLinguists from the United StatesWomen from the United StatesWomen born in the 1940s
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about Jamisonâs and Breretonâs Rigveda translation, also quoted in Danino, M. (2019). Demilitarizing the Rigveda: a scrutiny of Vedic horses, chariots and warfare., STUDIES IN HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES Journal of the Inter-University Centre for Humanities and Social Sciences VOL. XXVI, NUMBER 1, SUMMER 2019
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