A History of Sanskrit Literature c21.s2: Chapter III

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On the text and metres of the *Rigveda* see especially Oldenberg, *Die Hymnen des Ṛigveda*, vol. i., *Prolegomena*, Berlin, 1888; on the accent, Wackernagel, *Altindische Grammatik*, vol. i. pp. 281–300 (full bibliography), Göttingen, 1896; on the *Rigveda* in general, Kaegi, *The Rigveda*, English translation by Arrowsmith, Boston, 1886. Editions: Saṃhitā text; ed. Max Müller, London, 1873; Pada text, 1877; Saṃhitā text (in Roman characters), ed. Aufrecht, Bonn, 1877 (2nd ed.); Saṃhitā and Pada text with Sāyaṇa's commentary, 2nd ed., 4 vols., by Max Müller, London, 1890–92. Selections in Lanman's *Sanskrit Reader* (full notes and vocabulary); Peterson's *Hymns from the Rigveda* (Bombay Sanskrit Series); A. Bergaigne and V. Henry's *Manuel pour étudier le Sanskrit Védique*, Paris, 1890; Windisch, *Zwölf Hymnen des Rigveda*, Leipzig, 1883; Hillebrandt, *Vedachrestomathie*, Berlin, 1885; Böhtlingk, *Sanskrit-Chrestomathie*, 3rd ed., Leipsic, 1897. Translations: R. H. T. Griffith, *The Rigveda metrically translated into English*, 2 vols., Benares, 1896–97; Max Müller, *Vedic Hymns* (to the Maruts, Rudra, Vāyu, Vāta: prose), in *Sacred Books of the East*, vol. xxxii., Oxford, 1891; Oldenberg, *Vedic Hymns* (to Agni in Books i.–v.: prose), *ibid.*, vol. xlvi., 1897; A. Ludwig (German prose), 6 vols., Prag, 1876–88 (introduction, commentary, index). Lexicography: Grassmann, *Wörterbuch zum Rigveda*, Leipsic, 1873; the Vedic portion of Böhtlingk and Roth's Lexicon and of Böhtlingk's smaller St. Petersburg Dictionary (Leipsic, 1879–89); Monier-Williams, *Sanskrit-English Dictionary*, 2nd ed., Oxford, 1899; Macdonell, *Sanskrit-English Dictionary* (for selected hymns), London, 1893. Grammar: Whitney, *Sanskrit Grammar*, 3rd ed., Leipzig, 1896; Wackernagel, *op. cit.*, vol. i. (phonology); Delbrück, *Altindische Syntax* (vol. v. of *Syntaktische Forschungen*), Halle, 1888; Speijer, *Vedische und Sanskrit Syntax* in Bühler's *Encyclopædia*, Strasburg, 1896.