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About The Book -: This is the Ralph T.H. Griffith translation of the Atharvaveda. The Atharvaveda is a Vedic-era collection of spells, prayers, charms, and hymns. The Atharva-veda is a comparatively late addition to the three ancient Vedas the Rik, Yajus and Saman the Vedas repectively of recited praise, sacrifice and song or chanted hymn—which formed the foundation of early religious belief and worship of the Hindus. Unlike these three Vedas the Atharva-Veda derives the name by which it is generally known not form the nature of its contents but from a personage of indefinitely remote antiquity named Atharvan. About The Author -: Ralph Thomas Hotchkin Griffith (1826–1906) was an English Indologist, a member of the Indian education service and among the first Europeans to translate the Vedas into English. He lived in the UK (Oxford) and in India (Benares and Nilgiris). Griffith was born at Corsley, Wiltshire, on 25 May 1826. The son of the Reverend R. C. Griffith (Chaplain to the Marquess of Bath 1830), he was a B.A. of Queen's College and was elected Boden Professor of Sanskrit on Nov 24, 1849. He translated the Vedic scriptures into English. He also produced translations of other Sanskrit literature, including a verse version of the Ramayana and the Kumara Sambhava of Kalidasa. He held the position of principal at the Benares College in India and later lived in Kotagiri, Nilgiri. Griffith was more interested in translating Vedic books into English, and did most of his translations while living, teaching and researching in Kotagiri in the Nilgiris. At Kotagiri he tranquilly engaged in the study and translation of the Vedas. He died on 7 November 1906, and was buried there. The Title 'The Hymns of the Atharva-Veda written/authored/edited by Translated by Ralph T. H. Griffith', published in the year 2021. The ISBN 9788121299435 is assigned to the Paperback version of this title. This book has total of pp. 543 (Pages). The publisher of this title is Gyan Publishing House. This Book is in English. The subject of this book is Religion. Size of the book is 13.34 x 21.59 cms Vol:- 1st