Dear All,

Since mantras are again receiving much scholarly attention -- see now the report by Dominik A. Haas of the recent Vienna workshop "Mantras: Sound, Materiality, and the Body" FID4SA Repository 2022, https://doi.org/10.11588/fid4sarep.00004603 -- some of you may be interested in the following presentation (on the study and teaching of a small but significant set of mantras: the Vedic ones):

https://vimeo.com/722739138
Pdt. Chaitanya N. Kale and Pdt. Mukund R. Joshi:
"The mnemotechniques and traditional recitation of the Vedic Saṁhitās (RV and SV)" (Bucharest, 22 September 2010)
A. Recitation of some well-known Rgvedic mantras
(their precise identification is left as an exercise for students);
B. RV 1.164.50, yajñéna yajñám..., in samhita, pada and krama patha;
C. Samavedic mantras and chant

Jan E.M. Houben

Directeur d'Études, Professor of South Asian History and Philology

Sources et histoire de la tradition sanskrite

École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE, Paris Sciences et Lettres)

Sciences historiques et philologiques

Groupe de recherches en études indiennes (EA 2120)

johannes.houben [at] ephe.psl.eu

https://ephe-sorbonne.academia.edu/JanEMHouben

https://www.classicalindia.info

LabEx Hastec OS 2021 -- L'Inde Classique augmentée: construction, transmission

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