The text selected here is one that I edited and translated some twenty years ago: the Kaha Ārayaka a Bråhmaa style text of the Black Yajurveda.In doing so, I had to go through all steps of dealing with a Vedic text: learning a new script, the śåradå of Kashmir, figuring out the unmarked ends of sentences and trying to understand their meaning, and interpreting the arcane śrauta ritual and the homologies of Vedic thought.
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