[INDOLOGY] Vedas: Divisions, Dating and Language

[Dipak Bhattacharya]

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 Unpublished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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