[INDOLOGY] Vedas: Divisions, Dating and Language

James Hartzell james.hartzell at gmail.com
Fri May 23 07:34:10 UTC 2014


Dear Prof. Bhattacharya
If you might have a scanned version of your material to share that
would be wonderful.
Cheers
James

On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 7:53 AM, Dipak Bhattacharya
<dipak.d2004 at gmail.com> wrote:
> If the Indian tradition is taken as the decisive authority, in fact the
> names and main ideas are from tradition, a succinct statement is available
> in MadhusuudanaSarasvatii's Prasthaanabhedaa.h. Aided by a few other
> traditional compendia it furnishes material to devise an exhaustive
> two-dimensional structure. The Vedangas can be accommodated but things get
> complicated without new two dimensional structures for them. Unpublished tho
> (I hardly get time to arrange the material in a printable form) I taught
> these to foreign students for years with positive response.
> Two Belgian students stated that the treatment of the subject was somewhat
> similar in their country. I could not verify.
> The sandhi rules too are two-dimensionally structured and when communicated
> well-received by students. But this is on an exclusive plan not applicable
> to other divisions of categories.
> Was this of any help? As far as I remember the matter came up once long ago.
> Best
> DB
>
>
>
> On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 10:10 AM, Shyam Ranganathan <shyamr at yorku.ca> wrote:
>>
>> Dear List Members
>>
>> I am grateful for all the insightful comments that members generously
>> shared in response to my query. Here are the references:
>>
>> Mimamsa, 2.1 (adhikaranas 7-8 and 10-12) in Śabara and Kumārila
>>
>> James A. Santucci, "An Outline of Vedic Literature." (AAR) Minnesota:
>> Scholar's Press.
>>
>> Frits Staal's *Discovering the Vedas* Penguin, 2008.
>>
>> Witzel and by Witzel and Jamieson, at http://indology.info/papers/
>>
>> Michael Witzel, "Tracing the Vedic Dialects" in Colette Caillat (ed.),
>> Dialectes dans les littératures indo-aryennes. Paris: Institut de
>> Civilisation Indienne, 1989: 97-264
>>
>>
>> Many thanks!
>> Shyam
>>
>>
>> On 12/05/2014 11:22 PM, Shyam Ranganathan wrote:
>>
>> Dear Indology List members,
>>
>> I appreciate that this may seem a basic question. It's so basic, I don't
>> have any fantastic references!
>>
>> I was hoping for references to authoritative accounts of the division of
>> the Vedas into versions (Rg, Yajur etc.,), parts (Mantra, Brahmana etc.)
>> and dates in English.
>>
>> I was also interested in linguistic accounts of the Vedas that might
>> distinguish the earlier and later Vedas on linguistic lines.
>>
>> All help is most appreciated!
>>
>> Gratefully yours,
>> Shyam
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Shyam Ranganathan, MA, MA, PhD
>> Department of Philosophy
>> Department of Social Science, South Asian Studies
>> York University, Toronto
>>
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