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

[Harry Spier]

Thank you Dipak,

I wasn't suggesting that the RgVeda gayatri was later than the Taittiriya
Aranyaka gayatris.
What I was trying to ask was
1)if the Taittiriya Aranyaka gayatris were the earliest gayatris after the
RgVeda gayatri
2Since the RgVeda gayatri became such a sacred mantra, the later gayatris
didn't follow its form but followed the form of the Taittiriya Aranyaka
gayatris.
I.e. .....vidmahe
....dhimahI
tan naH pracodayAt

Thanks,
Harry

On Sun, Nov 8, 2015 at 11:57 PM, 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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