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This publication is the first complete translation into Russian of the Rig Veda, an ancient collection of poetic hymns addressed to the gods of the Aryan tri...

The eighth book “On Karna (Karnaparva)” is one of the most representative among the battle books of the ancient Indian epic “Mahabharata”. In addition to des...

Bhishmaparva is the sixth book of the Mahabharata. With it begins the description of the great battle of Kurukshetra, which forms the central part of the anc...

This book is a continuation of many years of work begun at the Russian Academy of Sciences more than half a century ago to create a complete, academic transl...

Books X and XI of the Mahabharata describe the events taking place immediately after the end of the great battle of the peoples of the entire Indian subconti...

For the first time in Russian, literary and interlinear translations of all 59 poems included in the poetic cycle of the great Chinese poet Li Bo (8th centur...

Firdowsi's poem "Shahnameh" is a heroic epic of the Iranian peoples, a classic work and national pride of literature: Persian - modern Iran and Tajik - Sovie...

The second volume of the Shahnameh translation is a continuation of the first volume, published in 1957. During the preparation of the second volume, the tea...

The previous volume of the complete translation of the Shahnameh was published in 1960. During the intervening time, a heavy loss was suffered: the commentat...

The previous volume of the complete translation of the Shahnameh was published in 1965. The team carried out work on the fourth volume with the same staff. T...

The book contains translations of twenty edifying texts preserved in the oldest Pahlavi manuscript of the 14th century, and commentaries on them. These combi...

Gunki-monogatari (warrior narratives) is a literary genre that formed at the turn of the 12th–13th centuries. Originates from oral descriptions of military c...