The Absent Vedas.

The Vedas were first described by a European author in a text dating from the 1580s, which was subsequently copied by other authors and appeared in translation in most of the major European languages in the course of the seventeenth century. It was not, however, until the 1730s that copies of the Ve...

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Publicado en:Journal of the American Oriental Society Vol. 139; no. 4; pp. 781 - 804
Autor principal: SWEETMAN, WILL
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Publicado: American Society for Premodern Asia (ASPA) Oct-Dec2019
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