Śruti, czyli staroindyjskie Słowo Usłyszane o dziełach stwórczego Rozumu
Śruti, or the Ancient Indian Heard Word On the Deeds of the Creative Reason

Author(s): Maria Krzysztof Byrski
Subject(s): History, Cultural history, Theology and Religion, History of Religion
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: Rigveda; Hinduism; sacrifice; Christianity
Summary/Abstract: The book, penned by Maria Krzysztof Byrski – an eminent authority on India, Poland’s former Ambassador to the country, and a long-standing lecturer at the University of Warsaw and Jawaharlal Nehru University in Delhi – offers a Polish translation and original exegesis of chosen hymns of the Rigveda, the oldest text of the Hinduist tradition. The author points out non-obvious affinities between the Hinduist and Christian thoughts and a refreshing potential availed to Christianity by the Rigvedic notion of creative sacrifice.

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