[INDOLOGY] Fw: [RISA-L LIST] IAST and the Gayatri Mantra

[Dipak Bhattacharya]

It will be, at least, unusual to suppose that the Rigvedic form of the
verse is later. The TA is a much later text. Among others the disyllabic
reading of *ya* as *iya* or *ia* was not adopted in writing tho the
parctice of disyllabic reading was never forsaken. But, if we take Panini
as the authority,  this is metrical ie not grammatical.
Sorry for long lecture.
Best wishes
Dipak Bhattacharya

On Mon, Nov 9, 2015 at 5:54 AM, Harry Spier <hspier.muktabodha at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Adeesh Sataye wrote:
>
>
> Dear Ketan,
>
> 3.062.10a    tát savitúr váreṇiyam
> 3.062.10b    bhárgo devásya dhīmahi
> 3.062.10c    dhíyo yó naḥ pracodáyāt
>
> You can find this and other IAST version of the metrically restored RV at:
> http://www.utexas.edu/cola/centers/lrc/RV/
>
>
>
> This is the form of the original Gayatri mantra from the Rg Veda but later
> gayatri mantras follow a different form.
>
> . . . . . . . . . . .vidmahe
>
> . . . . . . . . . .. dhimahI
>
> tan naḥ X pracodayāt
>
> 1) Are the Gayatri mantras from the Taittirīya Āraṇyaka book 10
> (Mahānārāyaṇa Upaniṣad) the earliest Gayatri mantras in this later form.?
>
> Given the sacredness afforded to the Gayatri mantra from the Rg Veda, does
> any of the Sanskrit literature say anything about why the later Gayatri
> mantras follow this different form?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Harry Spier
>
>
>
>
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