Dear Dean,Anukramanis contain all the information vaidikas might want to know about the Vedichymns they are learning and transmitting (rsi, devata and chandas of hymns and stanzas), except information about their ritual application.Information from the anukramanis is integrated into the recitations of Rgvedins, in Sayana's commentaries and in the Brhaddevata.In turn, the sources on which the anukramani-authors based themselves may have been Brahmanas and now lost Brahmana-like traditions.Jan Gonda (H.I.L. vol. 1) Vedic Literature Wiesbaden 1975 would be as usual a good starting point: factual andconceptual basics with bibliographic references to relevant publications in the west and in India up to the early seventies.See pp 34-35 in a section mainly dealing with the Rgveda:"The anukramanis[80], though not belonging to the vedangas proper, cannot beseparated from these auxiliary sciences. These succinct versified indexes—Anuvakanukramani, Arsanukramani[81] and three others[82]—provide us withlists of rsis, metres, deities, sections of the Rgveda and (the Chandanukramani)the numbers of the stanzas of the hymns[83]. Belonging to the last centuries ofthe Vedic period (± 5th-3rd cent. B.C.) they are attributed to Saunaka exceptthe more recent and systematic prose sutra-work called Sarvanukramani, a"General Index" (± 350 B.C.), which, combining the data contained in themetrical anukramanis, is held to have been composed by Katyayana, the famousteacher of the Yajurveda[84]. With the SrautasUtra of the White Yajurveda bythe same author it has the concise character of its style in common[85]."Gonda's main bibliographical references p 35 footnote:"Die Sarvanukramanl des Katyayana zum Rigveda, herausgegeben von A. A.MACDONELL, Thesis Leipzig, Oxford 1885; Katyayana's Sarvanukramanl . . . withextracts from Sadgurusisya's (12th cent.) commentary, edited by A. A. MACDONEI,:L,Oxford 1886; cf. also SCHEFTELOWITZ, at ZII 1, p. 89. MACDONELL, Brhad-devata,p. XXI. Some anukramanis of later origin need not detain us; see RENOU (-Fillio-zat), I. C. I, p. 306; RgvedanukramanI of Madhavabhatta, ed. C. KUNHAN RAJA,Madras 1932; some editions by VISHVA BANDHU and others, Hoshiarpur 1966(DANDEKAR, Bibliography, III, p. 14)."Best, Jan
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Subject: Anukramanis - warning - mentions Talageri in passingI believe it's Talageri's second book that he says is based on the Anukramanis. Witzel replied: Which ones? This seemed to leave Talageri nonplussed.Can anyone recommend further reading on the Anukramanis? Apart from a few sources, it's not an area I've been able to find much information about.Best,Dean