Re: [INDOLOGY] Fwd: Kṛṣṇa / Śukla YV

James Hartzell james.hartzell at gmail.com
Thu Jul 13 14:30:21 UTC 2017


If anyone might have a pdf of the article Walter cites, could you send it
around?

Cheers
James

On Thu, Jul 13, 2017 at 4:13 PM, Walter Slaje via INDOLOGY <
indology at list.indology.info> wrote:

> Before further random guessing, I suggest to consult the evidence Michael
> Witzel has collected and the reasons he has put forward in his paper: *Yājñavalkya
> as ritualist and philosopher, and his personal language"* (*Paitimāna.
> Essays in Iranian, Indo-European, and Indian Studies in Honor of
> Hanns-Peter Schmidt*, hg. v. Siamak Adhami. Vol. I: Indo-European and
> Indian Studies, Costa Mesa 2003, S. 103-143.), see, in particular, there
> on pp. 135f and 138.
>
> Regards,
> WS
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> 2017-07-13 15:00 GMT+02:00 Lubomír Ondračka via INDOLOGY <
> indology at list.indology.info>:
>
>> > My guess is that it is the Śukla Yajurvedins
>> > who began calling their Yajurveda with the term Śukla to suggest that
>> > Yājñavalkya's new Yajurveda was more pure than the old Yajurveda
>>
>> Yes, this seems to be the most probable explanation, see e.g. Gonda's
>> Vedic Literature (p. 327):
>>
>> This corpus is called "White" or "Clear" (śukla) because it consists
>> entirely of a conveniently arranged collection of mantras to be recited at
>> sacrifices, and is free from the explanatory matter that is collected in
>> separate brāmaṇas.
>>
>> Gonda refers to Eggeling's ŚPB I, p. xxvii and to  C. L. Prabhakar's
>> article in Bhāratīya Vidyā 28 (1968): 64.
>>
>> If I remember well, Frits Staal says more or less the same in his
>> Discovery of Veda.
>>
>> LO
>>
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