[INDOLOGY] Vedas: Divisions, Dating and Language

[James Hartzell]

Great, look forward to it.
Buon lavoro!

On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 9:52 AM, Dipak Bhattacharya
<dipak.d2004 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear Colleague, You really want! So many students took them to their lands,
> nobody spoke anything. So I shelved the matter for works that drew better
> response. But provided I get sufficient time to concentrate I shall try to
> devise something presentable -- not for the general reader which may be
> ridiculous but for individual need. The MLBD controversy took so much time,
> I regret that I could not be aloof. Must think of your request seriously
> later after offloading a bit.
> Thanks and best  wishes
> DB
>
>
> On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 1:04 PM, James Hartzell <james.hartzell at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Dear Prof. Bhattacharya
>> If you might have a scanned version of your material to share that
>> would be wonderful.
>> Cheers
>> James
>>
>> On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 7:53 AM, Dipak Bhattacharya
>> <dipak.d2004 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > 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 Unpublished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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>> The University of Trento, Italy
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James Hartzell, PhD
Center for Mind/Brain Sciences (CIMeC)
The University of Trento, Italy