[INDOLOGY] Book request

[Asko Parpola]

The abbreviations undoubtedly are dra. = draṣṭavyam = cf., and Mā. Saṃ. = Mādhyandina-Saṃhitā = Vājasaneyi-Saṃhitā in the Mādhyandina recension. 
B. R. Sharma passed away before he could publish the promised third volume of his SV-Saṃhitā edition, i.e. the book has not come out.  
With best wishes, Asko

Asko Parpola
Professor emeritus of Indology/South Asian Studies, University of Helsinki

> On 28. May 2024, at 17.10, Ilya Comet via INDOLOGY <indology at list.indology.info> wrote:
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> Dear fellow Indologists,
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> This is my first message to the list, and so I take the opportunity to salute all of you.
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> Recently, I wanted to consult the following work by Bellikoth Ramachandra Sharma, published in the Harvard Oriental Series: 
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> Sāmaveda samhitā of the Kauthuma school : with Padapāṭha and the commentaries of Mādhava, Bharatasvāmin and Sāyaṇa. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press.
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> 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.
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> Does anyone know whether the third volume has actually come out? And if it has, where is it available?
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> 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:
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> - aganma jyotir amr̥tā abhūma | antarikṣaṃ pr̥thivyā adhy āruhāma | divam antarikṣād adhy āruhāma | avidāma devān sam u devair aganmahi | dra. Mā. Saṃ. 8.52
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> - un nayāmi | Mā. Saṃ 31.5
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> 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.
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> 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...
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> Any ideas or suggestions would be very helpful!
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> Thank you,
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> Ilya Comet
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> Ilya Comet
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> PhD Candidate, University of Louvain
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> FRS-FNRS Research Fellow
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