‎H. W. Wallis‎
‎The Cosmology of the Rigveda, an essay‎

‎London 1887 William and Norgate, Hibbert Trustees Hardcover 1st Edition ‎

Reference : 027113

‎original publisher's brown Hardcover with gilded title on the spine, 22 x 14 cm, 130 pp., English, 1st Edition, book condition: Very Good. First edition of Wallis exhaustive study of the Cosmology of the ancient Indo-Aryan Indian Rigveda. Octavo, original cloth. In near fine condition.rnOne of the four sacred canonical texts of Hinduism, the Rigveda is an ancient Indo-Aryan Indian collection of Vedic Sanskrit hymns along with associated commentaries on liturgy, ritual and mystical exegesis. The core text, known as the Rigveda Samhita, is a collection of 1,028 hymns broken into roughlty 10,600 verses and organized into ten books. Wallis' The Cosmology of the Rigveda is a thourough interpretation and examination of the contents of the Rigveda with particular attention to the text's structure and major hymns. rn‎