What I have is not what was produced by Van Buitenen, but by the Vājapeya Performance Committee in Poona.

Madhav M. Deshpande
Professor Emeritus, Sanskrit and Linguistics
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
Senior Fellow, Oxford Center for Hindu Studies
Adjunct Professor, National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore, India

[Residence: Campbell, California, USA]


On Sat, Feb 13, 2021 at 10:59 AM Herman Tull <hermantull@gmail.com> wrote:
Are the materials Madhav cites the same as the Van Buitenen materials?

David Knipe's book, Vedic Voices: Intimate Narratives of a Living Andhra Tradition, has an entry in the bibliography for Van Buitenen's 1956, 13-pg, unpublished typescript that accompanies the film. (Perhaps he has the typescript in his possession.)Also, the entry for Van Buitenen's papers, held at the UC library, suggests that there are at least field notes to the film in their collection (but perhaps not the actual typescript that accompanied the film).
https://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/scrc/findingaids/view.php?eadid=ICU.SPCL.BUITENEN#idp148150056

A 1977 multi-authored document written by Knipe, Morgan, Dell, McDermott, and Smith, "Focus on Hindusim: A-V Resources for Teaching Religion," indicates that even in 1977, the film was no longer to be found.

This was brought up years ago in the Indology list. In 2010, Jarrod Whitaker sent out the following:

Fri Nov 12 08:43:07 EST 2010 
Does anyone know how I can get hold of a copy of the film: Atha Vajapeyah Somayagah: The Vajapeya Sacrifice produced by J.A.B. van Buitenen, 1955. My inter-library loan people sent me this message: "We have exhausted all possible ILL sources.
There are no libraries that own this item that are ILL suppliers. Additionally, I have conducted online research and have been unable to locate the film as cited."

Herman Tull

On Sat, Feb 13, 2021 at 1:25 PM Alfred Hiltebeitel via INDOLOGY <indology@list.indology.info> wrote:

I too would like t see this.  Alf
Sent from my iPad

> On Feb 13, 2021, at 11:18 AM, jmdelire <jmdelire@ulb.ac.be> wrote:
>
> Dear friends,
>
> I am also interested in receiving accesses to these very useful items
>
> Best regards,
>
> Jean Michel Delire
>
>
> Le 13.02.2021 16:47, NK a écrit :
>> Dear colleagues,
>> Would anyone happen to have Vājapeya 1955 Performance Committee
>> manual:
>> _The Śrauta Ritual and the Vājapeya Sacrifice_. Poona: Vājapeya
>> Performance Committee, 1955 .
>> And the film by Dr J.A.B. van Buitenen of the Vājapeya in Poona and
>> 13-page unpublished  typescript "_Vajapeya: English commentary_"
>> (1956)  accompanying the film.
>> With thanks and best wishes,
>> Yours,
>> Natalia Korneeva
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