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Stephanie W. Jamison
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“Many of the most obscure images and turns of phrase in the Rig Veda make sense as poetic realizations of specific ritual activities […] every apparent barbarity in syntax, in word choice, in imagery is deliberate and a demonstration of skill whose motivation I must seek.”
Stephanie W. Jamison (born 1948) first seen 1999 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On translating the Rig Veda: three questions. In: Jones-Bley, Karlene, Martin E. Huld and Angela Della Volpe (eds.) Proceedings of the Eleventh UCLA Indo-European Conference; Los Angeles, 1999 (=JIES Monograph 35), 1-20…
“The more I read the Rig Veda the harder it becomes for me – and much of the difficulty arises from taking seriously the aberrancies and deviations in the language… One can be blissfully reading the most banal hymn, whose form and message offer no surprises (I have come to cherish such coasting) – and suddenly trip over a verse, to which one’s only response can be ‘What??!!”
Stephanie W. Jamison (born 1948) first seen 2009 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: quoted in Thomson, K. (2009). A still undeciphered text: How the scientific approach to the Rigveda would open up Indo-European studies. Journal of Indo-European Studies, 37(1-2), 1-72.
“I am not a poet: I can enjoy the talents and artistic sincerity of a Rig Vedic poet, but I cannot emulate it or imagine how it feels to be part of this creative tradition. I am a scholar (though not a theologian), and I can appreciate internally the intellectual effort and acuity employed to make sense of the religious traditions that confronted the scholar of the Bráhmana period. I would hope to have in some measure the same controlled intelligence, the flashes of insight, and the empathy that these ancient scholars brought to bear on the tradition they were trying to explain, and I would also hope that they would appreciate the fact that this tradition remains an absorbing intellectual puzzle to this day.”
Stephanie W. Jamison (born 1948) first seen 1991 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 1991, The Ravenous Hyenas and the Wounded Sun. Myth and ritual in Ancient India. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.quoted in Thomson, K. (2009). A still undeciphered text: How the scientific approach to the Rigveda would…