The Two Oldest Veda Manuscripts: Facsimile Edition of Vajasaneyi Sa?hita 1-20 (Sa?hita- and Padapa?ha) from Nepal and Western Tibet (c. 1150 CE)

This volume offers unexpected insights into the history of the Veda, the earliest texts of South Asia, and their underlying oral transmission. In side-by-side facsimiles, Michael Witzel and Qinyuan Wu present the two oldest known Veda manuscripts, the Vājasaneyi Saṃhitā of the White Yajurveda and its contemporaneous sister text, a Vājasaneyi Padapāṭha, recently found in western Tibet. These two manuscripts have retained an unusual style of representing the pitched accents, and their juxtapo...