HOS – Opera Minora IX – Cambridge (Mass.) 2016

Vedic Śākhās: past, present, future

Proceedings of the Fifth International Vedic Workshop,

Bucharest, 2011

Edited by Jan E.M. Houben, Julieta Rotaru, Michael Witzel

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We regret that two contributors to the 2011 Bucharest conference have in the mean time passed away:

Prof. Dr. Braj (Brij) Bihari Chaubey 1940-2014: his contribution “Some Salient features of the Āśvalāyana-Saṁhitā” is in the present volume. Pt. Narayan (Nanaji) Govind Kale 1933-2016 contributed indirectly through a paper “Rare Veda Branches” presented at the 2011 conference by his son Pt. Chaitanya N. Kale (see several references to this contribution through the index under Kale), the latter also providing an extensive opening recitation from the Rg and Sāma veda at the conference together with Pt. Mukund R. Joshi.

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From the editors’ preface:

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The scientific study of the Orient started in Romania long ago and reached an early summit in the internationally acclaimed pioneering work of the Romanian orientalist and historian of religions Mircea Eliade (1907-1986). It was therefore fortunate and appropriate that the then Centre of Eurasiatic and Afroasiatic Studies, after having organized several seminars and courses in Eurasiatic and Afroasiatic Studies in preceding years, could organize the Fifth International Vedic Workshop in Bucharest from 20 to 23 September 2011. The editors of the volume of Proceedings of this event are happy that it could appear in the prestigious series of the Harvard Oriental Series, Opera Minora, Cambridge (Mass.), where, nineteen years ago, in 1997, also the Proceedings of the First International Vedic Workshop edited by Michael Witzel appeared. The 41 papers in the present volume contribute, in one way or another, to “the study of a civilization based on its texts” – the brief definition of philology given in Michael Witzel’s Introduction to the Proceedings of 1997.

The papers, although many of them may cover more than one field or topic, are placed in three broad categories. The second category is further divided Veda-wise.

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GENERAL STUDIES AND TOPICS ON ŚĀKHĀS

 

On the Current Situation of Vedic Śākhās (Materials on Vedic Śākhās, 9)

– Michael Witzel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

 

Négation et complémentarité dans le Veda, à la lumière de Panini (et de Platon)

– Radu Bercea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

 

Atirātra

– Joel P. Brereton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .    107

 

Vedic schools in northwestern India

– Johannes Bronkhorst . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .     119

 

Some observations regarding the concept of Time in Vedic ritual as reflected in

several Vedic schools

– Maitreyee Deshpande . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .         133

 

From Fuzzy-Edged “Family-Veda” to the canonical Śākhās of the Catur-Veda:

structures and tangible traces

– Jan E.M. Houben . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  159

 

Aspects of continuity of the Vedic tradition

– Joanna Jurewicz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   193

 

Trends of Standardization and Institutionalization in the Transmission of the Vedas:

Examples from Contemporary Maharashtra

– Borayin Larios . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211

 

The Development of the New- and Full-Moon Sacrifice and the Yajurveda Schools:

mantras, their brahmanas, and the offerings

– Naoko Nishimura . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227

 

Roots and Branches: the Veda as an Inverted Tree?

– Alexis Pinchard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  251

 

Donees and their Śākhās in Epigraphical Sources: Orissa

– Saraju Rath. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279

 

Tolerance and Intolerance in Kumārila’s Views on the Vedic śākhā

 – Kiyotaka Yoshimizu . . . . . . . . .                                                                         307

 

SPECIFIC STUDIES ON ŚĀKHĀS ...

RV

 

Some Salient features of the Āśvalāyana-Saṁhitā

– B.B. Chaubey. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329

 

Les Écoles védiques et la pratique de l’exégèse: le cas de Skandasvamin

– Silvia D’Intino . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   341

 

The power of the printed Veda: on early Indian editions of the Rgveda

– Cezary Galewicz. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .359

 

The Kauśītaki school of the Rgveda: A Veda caraṇa without a saṁhitā

– Thennilapuram Mahadevan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .          391

 

Two on a Swing: a New Perspective on the Rgveda

– Hartmut Scharfe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  431

 

YV

 

Indication of Divergent Ritual Opinions in the Maitrayanī Samhita

– Kyoko Amano . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 461

 

Cantillation et tonalité - Les deux paradigmes de tonalité dans le Taittirıya¯Aranyaka

et la Taittirıya-Upanisad

– Michel Angot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .        491

 

Formation of a Śrautasutra: the influence of preceding texts on the Baudhayana-Śrautasutra

Makoto Fushimi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 531

 

A survey of new evidence as to the formation of the Yajurveda and Brāhmaṇa texts

– With special reference to recent Vedic studies in Japan

–Toshifumi Goto . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  541

 

Formation and Chronology of Some of the Taittirīya Grhyasutras

– Ambarish V. Khare . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 559

 

Avakṣayana: Contribution of Yājñavalkya or Śukla Yajurveda to Indian Culture

– Madhavi Kolhatkar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 567

 

Scribes of the Śukla Yajurvedic Manuscripts

– Nirmala R. Kulkarni. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 573

 

Baudhāyanīya Contributions to Smārta Hinduism

– Timothy Lubin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 591

 

The Priests of the Avudaiyar Temple in Tamil Nadu: Promoters of the Agniveśya-grhyasutra

– S.A.S. Sarma . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 607

 

Āpastamba and Other Schools of Vedic Ritual

– Ganesh Thite. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  621

 

SV

 

Survivals & Revivals: the transmission of Jaiminīya Sāmaveda in modern south India

– Finnian M.M. Gerety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   633

 

References to ritual authorities and Vedic schools in the Jaiminīya-Śrautasutra and

its commentary, collected and evaluated

– Asko Parpola . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 665

 

Le Sāmavidhānabrāhmaṇa: le prāyaścitta décrypté

– Anne Marie Quillet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 691

 

AV

 

Attempts towards Preservation and Revival of the Śaunakīya Atharvaveda

– Shrikant S. Bahulkar. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 723

 

Trayī, triads and the Vedas

– Dipak Bhattacharya . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 737

 

Vedicizing a post-vedic text: the case of Ganeśa Atharvaśīrsa Upanisad

– Madhav M. Deshpande . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 777

 

Paithīnasi: A Critical Essay and Fragments Collected from Various Sources

– Julieta Rotaru . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 791

 

Karmasamuccaya: a Paippaladin Corpus of Domestic Rituals

– Shilpa Sumant. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  883

 

 

 

 

LINGUISTIC STUDIES

 

Morphosyntactic change in Vedic: Reassessing the evolution of the Subjunctive

– Eystein Dahl . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 907

 

Kṣetrasya Pati and Mandhātar

– Eijiro Doyama. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 935

 

Intrastanzaic Repetition in the Rigveda (Verba and Res): a Final Integration

– Jared S. Klein . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 955

 

The Periphrastic perfect in the Vedic language and Pāṇini’s Grammar

– Junichi Ozono . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .975

 

On Brhaspati’s name

– Georges-Jean Pinault . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 993

 

The language of sūktas and trcas shared by the Rk, Paippalāda and Śaunakīya Samhitās

– Elizabeth Tucker. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1009

 

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