Atharva Veda info request

[Frederick M. Smith]

Gitananda,

That's pretty amazing! I've been to Gokarna several times, and I never
heard of this guy. How long has he been there? Is he young and went there
fairly recently to teach in a pathasala? What do you know about his
students? Are they also born into AV families? I know, for example, of a
very good pathasala in Maharashtra that is now training students in
'saakhaas that they do not "belong to" by birth, just for the sake of
maintaining complete Vedic traditions. I would really like to know who
these Atharvavedis are. Thanks for any info you can share. Are you still in
Berkeley? If so, maybe we can get together at the AAR.

Best regards,
Om Namah sivaya, Jai Sri Krsna, etc.
Fred

>Fred,
>My records are not that extensive, but I personally know one Saunakiya in
>Gokarna (who is training two other students in turn) and at least one more
>in Varanasi (whose father did go to fiveness just a few years ago). They
>all follow the Kaushika Sutra.
>
>Regards,
>Swami Gitananda
>
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>From:   Indology
>Sent:   Thursday, October 30, 1997 12:30 PM
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>Subject:        Re: Atharva Veda info request
>
>To the best of my knowledge, there is nobody in Gokarna who knows the
>Saunakiya AV, or any other AV "saakhaa. And I would venture to guess the
>same is the case in Varanasi. A few vaidikas may know a few mantras, but
>the last of the "Saunakiiyas, in Gujarat, may be gone by now (to fiveness).
>A taperecording of this text was made several years ago (in Gujarat) by the
>Tirupati Devasthanam and is on file there, though it is virtually
>impossible to get (I have tried). The IGNCA also has a copy of this
>recording, but the procedural problems there are nearly as forbidding. I am
>currently working on a proposal which would enable copying the material in
>Tirupati. (Ask me in a year what has come of it).
>
>Fred Smith
>
>Frederick M. Smith
>Assoc. Prof. of Sanskrit and Classical Indian Religion
>School of Religion - 314 Gilmore Hall
>Department of Asian Languages and Literature - 653 Phillips Hall
>University of Iowa
>Iowa City, IA  52242  U.S.A.
>+ 319-335-2178 (O)
>+ 319-338-7193 (H)
>fsmith at blue.weeg.uiowa.edu

Frederick M. Smith
Assoc. Prof. of Sanskrit and Classical Indian Religion
School of Religion - 314 Gilmore Hall
Department of Asian Languages and Literature - 653 Phillips Hall
University of Iowa
Iowa City, IA  52242  U.S.A.
+ 319-335-2178 (O)
+ 319-338-7193 (H)
fsmith at blue.weeg.uiowa.edu