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

[Dipak Bhattacharya]

In continuation -- take note of the deities in the TA verses. New cults
developed, the TA changed accordingly.
DB

On Mon, Nov 9, 2015 at 10:27 AM, Dipak Bhattacharya <dipak.d2004 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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