[INDOLOGY] Book request

[Ilya Comet]

Dear fellow Indologists,

This is my first message to the list, and so I take the opportunity to 
salute all of you.


Recently, I wanted to consult the following work by Bellikoth 
Ramachandra Sharma, published in the Harvard Oriental Series:

/Sāmaveda samhitā of the Kauthuma school : with Padapāṭha and the 
commentaries of Mādhava, Bharatasvāmin and Sāyaṇa/. Cambridge, 
Massachusetts: Harvard University Press.

I found it in my library in two volumes: vol. 1 containing the 
Pūrvārcika (published in 2000, n. 57 in the series) and  vol. 2 = 
Uttarārcika (2001, n. 58). However, in the preface of both volumes, the 
author speaks of a total of _three volumes to be published_, the last 
one being planned in 2002 and containing, among others, an introduction 
(and a list of abbreviations). However, I have not been able to find 
this third volume anywhere, not even in the Karlsruhe Virtual Catalog.

_Does anyone know whether the third volume has actually come out?_ And 
if it has, where is it available?


The specific information I am looking for is the meaning of an 
abbreviation (in bold here) used by the editor, in the following passage 
from vol. 1 p. 3 or 4:

- /aganma jyotir amr̥tā abhūma | antarikṣaṃ pr̥thivyā adhy āruhāma | 
divam antarikṣād adhy āruhāma | avidāma devān sam u devair aganmahi |/ 
*dra*. *Mā. Saṃ. 8.52*

- /un nayāmi/ | *Mā. Saṃ* *31.5*

These are mantras quoted by the commentator Mādhava in his introduction. 
That passage contains several mantras that I could not trace back 
(exactly) to extant texts, even outside the Sāmaveda-saṃhitā. In the 
first instance, the first pāda corresponds to VS 8.52 but the rest 
doesn’t; the Updated Concordance returned no results for the whole 
mantra. But the editor B R Sharma seems to have identified something 
similar in another text, abbreviated/Mā. Saṃ./, which he invites us to 
look at (/dra. = draṣṭavyam/?). The second passage, which the 
Concordance identifies as Kaṭha-saṃhitā 11.8, is apparently also found 
in that mysterious text.

I expect it to be the name of a Saṃhitā or at least a Vedic text, but 
which? The Maitrāyaṇī has only 4 chapters, and I can’t think of a name 
of a Saṃhitā that starts with Mā...

Any ideas or suggestions would be very helpful!


Thank you,

Ilya Comet


Ilya Comet

PhD Candidate, University of Louvain

FRS-FNRS Research Fellow
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