Suggestions for English translations of the Vedas?

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>>3170495
The vedas suck ass and make good toilet paper, just like the bible

Read the Tantraloka instead

Avoid anything by ISKCON, but I´m not sure if they have translated the Rig Veda, they prefer the much, much later Puranic sectarian literature that they call "Vedas".

I´m not competent enough to know if it´s 100% accurate or not, but Ralph Griffith´s translation preserves the metric scheme of the hymns, which I find pretty cool. So if you could, for example, set it into music and sing in both English and Sanskrit and it would basically fit.

>>3172046
Second for Griffith

>>3171987
Fuck off
>Shaivism
Only Vedas

Doesn't translate well literally so your best bet is to get multiple translation and cross reference that shit...Sanskrit is extremely intricate, the ability to pronunciate, spell, master this form of written letter is imprinted in Aryan Hindi genetic memory it's such a challenge yo. That's why those dumb fucks win all the spelling bees bruh

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>>3172491
the vedas ARE shaivic, EVERYTHING is shaivism my man

t. alain danielou

>>3172514
Not really. Shiva is a Dravidian graveyard spirit that got ARYAN´d/syncretized with Vedic Rudra, which was originally a storm god, one of the Maruts, and Indra's companion. Shaivism philosophy is a mishmash between Upanishads, Buddhism, Shramanic traditions and the Tantric and Agamic traditions, which had been flying under the radar until then.

Shaivite* philosophy.

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>>3170495
The Enlightened Capitalist Version:
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-rigveda-9780199370184;jsessionid=92BD54953AA4DACE425E1D57C3D550F0?cc=us&lang=en&

The Pleb Free Information Version:
http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/rigveda/

Metrically Restored Text:
https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/lrc/rigveda/index.php

Chanting:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAucCtppdPE

Griffith's matches the syllable count:

aagním īḷe puróhitaṃ
byajñásya devám r̥tvíjam
chótāraṃ ratnadhā́tamam

I Laud Agni, the chosen Priest,
God, minister of sacrifice,
The hotar, lavishest of wealth.

http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/rigveda/rv01001.htm

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>>3172565
Say that to my face IDL (in the deva loka) and see what happens, dualist

>>3172629
F-forgive my insolence oh Blue-throated One! Please don´t vaporize me with your optic blast!

Which one is your favorite hymn from the Rig Veda lads? Mine is the one about the tree and the two birds.

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>>3172662
Mine is the one about rubbing the Vajra in the Padma

>>3172670
Lewd.

>>3172670
is that sexual it sounds sexual

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This one is not bad either.

Thou hast disclosed the light to light the Ārya: on thy left hand, O Indra, sank the Dasyu.
19 May we gain wealth, subduing with thy succour and with the Ārya, all our foes, the Dasyus.

>>3172670
That's the Kalachakra tantra and it's buddhist

>>3170495
Read Olivelle's Upanisads and google the Nasadiya hymn

If you must, Doniger's Vedas are good

>>3172662
I like the Gambler's Lament

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>>3170495

>>3172046
>Avoid anything by ISKCON
Prahupada's translations are some of the best out there though.

>much later Puranic sectarian literature that they call "Vedas".
The Puranas are Vedic texts. The Bhagavata Purana which is popular in ISKCON is the most studied Purana as well, I'd hardly call that sectarian.

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>>3172565

Ultimately, orthodoxy in Hinduism is determined by adherence to the early vedas, in particular the Rig-Veda.The fact that Shiva was able to be incorporated was because it spoke to strains of thought already present that had been expressed in the Shruti texts.