Dear Harry,
Asko Parpola discussed "the primary meaning and etymology of the sacred syllable Om" in 1981 (in Studia Orientalia 50: 195-213) and summarizes his theory of its (proto-)Dravidian origin together with other "fairly convincing examples of Dravidian loanwords" in his recent book The Roots of Hinduism - The Early Aryans and the Indus Civilization, OUP 2015 pp. 169-172.
Hans Henrich Hock's 1991 article "On the origin and early development of the sacred Sanskrit syllable om" appeared in Perspectives on Indo-European language, culture, and religion:  Studies in honor of Edgar C. Polomé
1.89-110.
Best, Jan

      

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On 4 January 2016 at 04:53, Harry Spier <hspier.muktabodha@gmail.com> wrote:
Dear list members,

First thank you to all the list members who sent me the articles on Om I needed.

Secondly do any of the vedic specialists have a translation of verse 2.13 from the Vajasaneyi Samhita. My understanding from Keiths article is that this is the earliest explicit occurance of Om in the literature. Also my understanding is that Griffiths translation of the Vajasaneyi Samhita can't always be trusted.

The verse 2.13 :

máno jūtír juṣatām ā́jyasya bŕ̥haspátir yajñám imáṃ tanotu \

 

áriṣṭaṃ yajñám̐ sám imáṃ dadhātu víśve devā́sa ihá mādayantām ó3ṃ prá tiṣṭha \\


Thanks,
Harry Spier 


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