Leach Robert, Hellwig Oliver, Zehnder Thomas (eds.) Studies in the Atharvaveda

Proceedings of the 3rd Zurich International Conference on Indian Literature and Philosophy. — Berlin / Boston: de Gruyter, 2025. — VIII + 433 p. — (Welten Süd- und Zentralasiens / Worlds of South and Inner Asia / Mondes de l'Asie du Sud et de l'Asie Centrale 15).This volume, the first of its kind in nearly two decades, comprises 16 articles on the Atharvaveda, India’s second oldest text, by the world’s leading scholars in the field, from India, Japan, Europe and North America. Linguistic, ritual, mythological, historical and hermeneutical aspects of the Atharvaveda are studied alongside its transmission, influence and reception, from a broad variety of theoretical and disciplinary perspectives.