[INDOLOGY] Vedas: Divisions, Dating and Language

[George Thompson]

Another good overview which is entertaining and accessible to non-Vedicists
is Frits Staal's *Discovering the Vedas*, published in 2008 in an
inexpensive paper edition by Penguin Books India.

George Thompson


On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 2:43 AM, Dominik Wujastyk <wujastyk at gmail.com>wrote:

> I don't know if it will meet your needs, but there is some material on
> this by Witzel and by Witzel and Jamieson, at http://indology.info/papers/
>
> DW
>
>
> On 13 May 2014 05:22, Shyam Ranganathan <shyamr at yorku.ca> 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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