Re: [INDOLOGY] Kṛṣṇa / Śukla YV

[CHRISTOPHER GIBBONS]

Many thanks to all who replied to my query. I just received a copy of the Witzel article, and attach it herewith.
Cheers, Chris



> On 14 Jul 2017, at 5:35 am, Harry Spier via INDOLOGY <indology at list.indology.info> wrote:
> 
> I would also like a pdf of this articla.
> 
> Thanks,
> Harry Spier
> 
> On Thu, Jul 13, 2017 at 10:13 AM, Walter Slaje via INDOLOGY <indology at list.indology.info <mailto: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 <mailto: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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