The History of Indian Literature c8.91

c8.91

³² Müller’s edition of the text, together with the commentary of Sáyaṇa, a complete index of words, and list of *pratíkas*, is now complete in six vols., 1849–1875. He has also published separately the text of the first *maṇḍala*, in *saṃhitá-* and *pada-páṭha* (Leipzig, 1856–69), as also the whole 10 maṇḍalas, likewise in double form (London, 1873). The first complete edition of the text was published, in Roman transliteration, by Aufrecht, in vols. vi. and vii. of the *Indische Studien* (1861–63). Roer’s edition of text and commentary, in the *Bibliotheca Indica*, Nos. 1–4 (Calc. 1849), only reaches to the end of the second *adhyáya*. A fragment of the text, edited by Stevenson so long ago as 1833, extends but a little farther (i. 1–35).—Of Wilson’s translation, five volumes have appeared; the last, in 1866, under the editorship of Cowell, brings it up to *maṇḍ.* viii. 20. Benfey published in his *Orient und Occident* (1860–68) a critical translation of *maṇḍ.* i. 1–118. Twelve hymns to the Maruts are translated and furnished with a detailed commentary in vol. i. of Max Müller’s *Rigveda Saṃhitá, trans-* *lated and explained* (London, 1869). But the scholar who has done most by far for the right understanding of the Ṛik is Roth; both in the commentary added to his edition of Yáska's *Nirukta* (Göttingen, 1848–52), and in the great St. Petersburg Sanskrit Dictionary (seven vols., 1853–75), edited by Böhtlingk and him. Here we may also mention the following works:—Grassmann, *Wörterbuch zum Ṛigveda* (1873, ff.); Delbrück, *Das altindische Verbum* (1874); Benfey, *Einleitung in die Grammatik der vedischen Sprache* (1874), and *Die Quantitätsverschiedenheiten in den Saṃhitá- und Pada-Texten der Veden*; Bollensen, *Die Lieder des Paráśara*, in *Z. D. M. G.* xxii. (1868); *Siebenzig Lieder des Ṛigveda, übersetzt von Karl Geldner und Adolf Kaegi, mit Beiträgen von R. Roth* (Tübingen, 1875)—reviewed by Abel Bergaigne in the *Revue Critique*, Dec. 11 and 18, 1875; Alfred Ludwig, *Die Nachrichten des Ṛig- und Atharvaveda über Geographie, Geschichte und Verfassung des alten Indiens* (the identification here mentioned, p. 13, of the Vedic Sarasvatí with the Indus, was first made by myself; cf. *Váj. S. Spec.*, ii. 80 n., 1847), and *Die philosophischen und religiösen Anschauungen des Veda* (Prag, 1875); Alfred Hillebrandt, *Ueber die Göttin Aditi* (Breslau, 1876); H. Zimmer, *Parjanya Fiörgyn Váta Wodan* in *Zeitschrift für Deutsches Alterthum*, New Series, vii. 164, ff. Lastly, we have to draw attention specially to Muir's *Original Sanskrit Texts* (5 vols., second edit., London, 1868, ff.), in which the antiquarian information contained in the Ṛik-Saṃhitá on the different stages and phases of Indian life at that early period is clearly and comprehensively grouped: translations of numerous Vedic passages and pieces are given.