By Amos Nevo
This booklet is the end result of the author's learn for Ph.D. dissertation – Naciketas: The Boy who back from demise (in Hebrew). it's the first serious variation of a complete Sanskrit model of the NAsiketa fantasy, with a whole translation into English. The textual content consists from a number of manuscripts of an identical department of improvement, and in comparison with the entire revealed Sanskrit models of the tale, and a few others, nonetheless in manuscript shape.
The advent is a brief research of the religious-philosophic principles conveyed through the tale through the generations, and it leaves scope for extra literary, spiritual, philosophic, linguistic, or different research."
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