[INDOLOGY] Re: Request pdf, film Vājapeya 1955, Poona

[Madhav Deshpande]

Dear Jan,

     I was only 9 years old in 1955, but my parents did go and see parts of
this event. This was in part because the late Professor Vidyadhar Bhide was
a classmate of my father and Vidyadhar Bhide's father was a living
Agnihotri who, from what I heard, had participated in this sacrifice.  I
remember visiting the Bhide home and seeing the Homakunda there. Also,
right behind the grounds of the S.P. College, there was a Mīmāṃsā
Pāṭhaśālā, and the people there may have participated in this performance.
Besides the few Vedapāṭhaśālās, Pune also had the Vedaśāstrottejak Sabha
established something around 1870s and this was still functional during my
student days.  I appeared for one of their examinations held in the
Anandashrama.

Madhav

Madhav M. Deshpande
Professor Emeritus, Sanskrit and Linguistics
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
Senior Fellow, Oxford Center for Hindu Studies
Adjunct Professor, National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore, India

[Residence: Campbell, California, USA]


On Mon, Feb 15, 2021 at 3:14 AM Jan E.M. Houben <jemhouben at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear Natalia,
> Thanks / Spasibo !
> I figured that Скачать must mean Download and it worked out well.
> In this brochure I could not find any hint about one important aspect of
> this 1955 performance: that it was filmed!
> At that time this was an enormous undertaking, with separate instruments
> for recording image and sound.
> I read or saw on some picture that van Buitenen had mobilized a whole team
> and some scaffolding for the filming and separate sound recording of this
> event, so it is hard to believe that the Samiti was not aware of this.
> Hence in van Buitenen's film, which *does* mention the
> Vaajapeya Anu.s.thaana Samiti, one of the acknowledgements -- a little
> difficult to read -- states:
> "Assembled by: Stichting Film en Wetenschap, Universitaire Film, Utrecht"
> This Dutch Stichting Film en Wetenschap was just established in 1955, and
> continues at present under the name Nederlands Instituut voor Beeld en
> Geluid.
> Due to the poor quality of this historic recording it is difficult to
> recognise persons and faces, but at 07 min 31 seconds it is unmistakably
> Prof. R.N. Dandekar who appears, walking next to the procession of the
> yajamaana and patnii and his fires from his home to the sacrificial area
> prepared at the SP College ground. Madhav, do you recognize any other
> persons in the film?
> Best regards to all,
> Jan Houben
>
> On Mon, 15 Feb 2021 at 11:46, NK <natankor at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Dear colleagues,
>>
>> Prof. Madhav Deshpande posted a link for a wonderful copy of the Vajapeya
>> booklet 1955 (see another thread).
>> if someone is interested in a light searchable B/W pdf of it, please, get
>> it here:
>> https://disk.yandex.ru/i/diM7CJRZQzzHOw
>>
>> With great respect and best wishes
>> Cordially Yours
>> Natalia
>>
>> сб, 13 февр. 2021 г. в 18:47, NK <natankor at gmail.com>:
>>
>>> Dear colleagues,
>>> Would anyone happen to have Vājapeya 1955 Performance Committee manual:
>>> *The Śrauta Ritual and the Vājapeya Sacrifice*. Poona: Vājapeya
>>> Performance Committee, 1955 .
>>> And the film by Dr J.A.B. van Buitenen of the Vājapeya in Poona and
>>> 13-page unpublished  typescript "*Vajapeya: English commentary*"
>>> (1956)  accompanying the film.
>>>
>>> With thanks and best wishes,
>>> Yours,
>>> Natalia Korneeva
>>>
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