Re: [INDOLOGY] Why there is no Padapāṭha for this mantra

[Madhav Deshpande]

Thanks, Johannes.  Best.

Madhav

Madhav M. Deshpande
Professor Emeritus
Sanskrit and Linguistics
University of Michigan
[Residence: Campbell, California]


On Sat, Sep 22, 2018 at 10:23 PM Johannes Bronkhorst <
johannes.bronkhorst at unil.ch> wrote:

> The following article mentions the six verses of the Ṛgveda that have no
> Padapāṭha (on p. 44):
>
> Kashikar, C. G. (1951): "The problem of the gaḷantas in the
> Ṛgveda-Padapāṭha." *Proceedings of the All-India Oriental Conference* 13
> (1946), 39-46.
>
> Commenting on this, I wrote in 1981 (p. 87): "This is most easily
> explained by the assumption that these verses were not considered part of
> the Ṛgveda by Śākalya. It further shows that the final redactors did not
> hesitate to deviate from the composer of the Padapāṭha in deciding what
> did, and what did not, belong to the Ṛgveda. (It is interesting to note
> that at least one hymn of the Ṛgveda (10.95) is known to have had fewer
> verses than at present at as late a date as that of the Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa.
> See Oldenberg, 1912: 303.)"
>
> "The orthoepic diaskeuasis of the Ṛgveda and the date of Pāṇini." *Indo-Iranian
> Journal* 23 (1981), pp. 83-95.
>
> http://my.unil.ch/serval/document/BIB_F9751BB34E62.pdf
>
> with a reference to:
>
> Oldenberg, Hermann (1912): *Ṛgveda. Textkritische und exegetische Noten*.
> Siebentes bis Zehntes Buch. Berlin: Weidmannsche Buchhandlung.
>
> Johannes Bronkhorst
>
> On 23 Sep 2018, at 06:05, Madhav Deshpande via INDOLOGY <
> indology at list.indology.info> wrote:
>
> RV 7.59.12 त्र्यम्बकं यजामहे सुगन्धि पुष्टिवर्धनम्। उर्वारुकमिव
> बन्धनान्मृत्योर्मुक्षीय माऽमृतात्। does not have a Padapāṭha.  This is not
> a repeated mantra in the RV Saṃhitā.  What might be the reason why this
> mantra does not have a Padapāṭha?  Is it likely that there were a few
> post-Padapāṭha additions to the RV Saṃhitā?  Someone asked this question on
> another discussion group.
>
> Madhav M. Deshpande
> Professor Emeritus
> Sanskrit and Linguistics
> University of Michigan
> [Residence: Campbell, California]
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