The Indic and Greater Indic manuscript collection of the
Burke Library of the Union Theological Seminary while
small, is representative of high points in the Indic tradition.
It contains as well manuscripts which are not well represented
otherwise in the United States and Canada. There
are in the collection, for instance, two manuscripts of the
saṃhitā text of the Ṛgveda, one complete and one lacking
only aṣṭaka 6 and perhaps small sections of other aṣṭakas as
well. There are all told in the United States and Canada, not
counting the Burke Library’s holdings, only three complete
or nearly complete manuscripts of the saṃhitā text of the
Ṛgveda reported to date, one at the Newberry Library, Chicago,
and two in the extensive collection of Indic manuscripts
at the University of Pennsylvania Library. The latter
has as well one complete manuscript of the padapāṭha text
of the Ṛgveda...
Вступительный экзамен в очную аспирантуру ИВР РАН по специальности 5.9.2. Литературы народов мира состоится 13 сентября (среда) в 14:00 в каб. 146 («Кабинет изучения Лотосовой сутры»).
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