new Vedic vol./ Opera Minora, Harvard Or. Ser.

[Michael Witzel]

A new Volume of HOS-OM has been released:

        HARVARD ORIENTAL SERIES,  OPERA MINORA, VOL. 2:

        INSIDE THE TEXTS, BEYOND THE TEXTS
        NEW APPROACHES TO THE STUDY OF THE VEDAS

Edited by Michael Witzel

Published by the Dept. of Sanskrit and Indian Studies, Harvard Univ.,
Distributed by South Asia Books, Columbia MO.

Cambridge 1997

ISBN 1 - 888 789 - 03 - 4
pp.  xix, 380.  Price c. $35

This volume contains the papers given at the International Vedic Workshop
at Harvard University, where some of the leading international specialists
in the study of the Veda presented new approaches in Vedic Studies. The
volume covers Vedic language and grammar, the structure and nature of the
texts and their poetics, canon formation, Vedic ritual, religion and the
history of ideas, the social and political history and the archaeology of
this earliest period of Indian history that is accessible in decipherable
texts.

The Opera Minora of the Harvard Oriental Series are available from South
Asia Books, P.O. Box 502, Columbia, MO 65205, email: sabooks at juno.com;
phone: 573-474-0116; fax: 474-8124.

For information write to: Editor, Harvard Oriental Series, Department of
Sanskrit & Indian Studies, Harvard University,
2 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge MA 02138, USA;
ph. 617-496-2990, email: sanskrit at fas.harvard.edu

www.fas.harvard.edu/~witzel/mwpage.htm
in future: www.fas.harvard.edu/~sanskrit/hos-om.html

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CONTENTS:

Introduction                                                    v-xix

Articles:
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Joel P. Brereton
        Why is a Sleeping Dog like the Vedic Sacrifice?
        The Structure of an Upanisadic Brahmodya....................1

Colette Caillat
        Vedic and Early Middle Indo-Aryan..........................15

George Cardona
        Vedic Tradition and Descriptions of Grammarians............33

R.N. Dandekar
        Vedic Mythology:  A Rethinking.............................39

Tatyana Y. Elizarenkova
        Problems of a Synchronic Description of Language and Style
        in the Rgveda..............................................49

Walter S. Fairservis
        The Harappan Civilization and the Rgveda...................61

Harry Falk
        The Purpose of Rgvedic Ritual..............................69

Masato Fujii
        On the Formation and Transmission of the Jaiminiya-
        Upanisad-Brahmana..........................................89

Hans Henrich Hock
        Chronology or Genre?  Problems in Vedic syntax............103

Stephanie  W. Jamison
        Formulaic Elements in Vedic Myth..........................127

Jared Klein
        On Verbal Accentuation in the Rigveda.....................139

Christopher Z. Minkowski
        School Variation in the Text of the Nivids................167

Boris Oguibenine
        On Genuflexion in Vedic and Indo-European.................185

Asko Parpola
        The Dasas and the Coming of the Aryans....................193

Wilhelm Rau
        The Earliest Literary Evidence for Permanent
        Vedic Settlements.........................................203

Hanns-Peter Schmidt
        Ahimsa and Rebirth....... ................................207

Renate Soehnen
        Rise and Decline of the Indra Religion in the Veda........235

Calvert  Watkins
        The Indo-European Background of Vedic Poetics.............245

Michael Witzel
        The Development of the Vedic Canon and its Schools:
        The Social and Political Milieu............. .............257


Participants and their Addresses..................................347

Index.............................................................351



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