The Rig Veda Between Two Worlds. Le Rgveda Entre Deux Mondes‪.‬

The Rig Veda Between Two Worlds. Le Rgveda entre deux mondes. By STEPHANIE JAMISON. Publications de I'Institut de civilisation indienne, no. 74. Paris: College de France, 2007. Pp. 172. This series of lectures given at the College de France faces, like its title, in two directions. In her search for the elusive "poet" and "poem" of early Indian literature, Jamison begins and ends her essays elsewhere: on the one hand, with a meticulous examination of Avestan evidence and, on the other, with a set of speculations on the "reinvention" of poetry (kdvya) in the much later "classical" period. In between, presumably, the "poet" (kavi) and the "poem" (sukta, narrowly speaking) of the Vedic (largely Rgvedic) period are, it is hoped, to be found.