Sanskrit onomastics

[George Thompson]

Also, I had intended to mention Michael Witzel's essay "Aryan and
Non-Aryan names in Vedic India" published in Harvard Oriental Series,
Opera Minora vol. 3, 1999.  I had assumed initially that it was
well-known to all Indologists, but maybe it is good to mention it
again.

GT

On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 4:06 PM, George Thompson <gthomgt at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear Adriano Aprigliano,
>
> If you are interested in Rigveda onomastics, I can recommend Manfred
> Mayrhofer: Die Personennamen in der Rgveda-Samhitaa. Sicheres und
> Zweifelhaftes [2003].  He has also written a monograph on Old Iranian
> onomastica, which I have here somewhere, but which I cannot find at
> the moment.  I also would call your attention to a collection of
> articles [mostly in German] on Indo-Iranian onomastica published
> fairly recently in the USA [California] by Ruediger Schmitt.
>
>  I apologize for not being able to give detailed bibliography for
> these books now.  I am busy with other duties and cannot readily find
> these books in my personal library.  But I can assure you that they
> would be useful to you when it comes to early Indo-Iranian onomastics.
>
> If you cannot find reference to these books, please let me know, and I
> will try to give you more specific information when I can.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> George Thompson
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 2:59 PM, Adriano Aprigliano <aprigliano at usp.br> wrote:
>> Dear colleagues,
>>
>>
>>
>> Does anyone have a good text on Sanskrit onomastics? I’ve been trying to
>> have a clear understanding of such name variations as in the case of
>> Bhartr-hari (Hari, Hari-vrsabha), if the parts bhartr and vrsabha are surely
>> or questionably no more than honorific appendices.
>>
>> Best
>>
>> Adriano Aprigliano
>>
>>
>>
>> Post-doc researcher
>>
>> Universidade de São Paulo
>>
>> São Paulo/Brazil
>>
>>