[INDOLOGY] Draupadii and polyandry

[Andrew Ollett]

Oliver Hellwig has written some very interesting articles on applying
various statistical techniques to Sanskrit texts (including the
Mahābhārata) in order to determine "authorial structures" and hence
relative dating:

https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqp034
https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqn043
https://doi.org/10.1163/15728536-06002001

The last article presents a technique for distinguishing sections of a text
based on several features (lexical, syntactic, metrical, etc.) while
controlling for differences introduced by changing topics.

On Fri, Oct 26, 2018 at 5:25 PM Harry Spier via INDOLOGY <
indology at list.indology.info> wrote:

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>
> On Fri, Oct 26, 2018 at 12:18 PM Joydeep via INDOLOGY
>
>> How are you identifying the “earlier strata” of the epic?
>>
>
> 1) I'd be interested if someone could  point out the scholarly articles
> on  relative dating of different parts of the Mahabharata.?
>
> 2) Could the techniques Michael Witzel pointed out years ago in this
> posting  to relatively date the books or the Ramayana  be used.  I.e
> relative occurance of  vai or similar words in vedic position 2 versus
> elsewhere. ?
>
> http://list.indology.info/pipermail/indology_list.indology.info/2000-March/020863.html
>
> 3) Could a similar technique be used with other linguistic
> characteristics.I.e. relative occurance of linguistic characteristics  that
> are uncommon in vedic but common in classical sanskrit.  Whitney noted use
> of passive constructions,  participles instead of verbs, substitution of
> compounds for sentences as characteristic of the change from vedic to the
> classical language.
>
> Harry Spier
>
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