[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Reference works](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference) › [A Vedic Concordance](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.bloomfield-1906) › c4.s6 # A Vedic Concordance c4.s6: Acknowledgment of Obligations A Vedic Concordance c4.s6 - **Language:** English ### Acknowledgment of Obligations ### [c4.s6.1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.bloomfield-1906.c4.s6.1) To the University Press of Oxford.—The external appearance of this work is such that any specific comment upon the technical skill, the good taste, and the patient fidelity of Mr. HORACE HART, M.A., Controller of the Press, is quite uncalled for. I am certain that I owe much also to the valuable help of the Oriental Reader at the Press, Mr. J. C. PEMBREY, Hon. M.A. of Oxford, especially for his watchful care of details concerning the alphabetic order of the index. The services of both these gentlemen I gratefully acknowledge. ### [c4.s6.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.bloomfield-1906.c4.s6.2) To Pupils and Colleagues.—A good many years have gone by since the first preliminaries of the work on the Concordance were begun. It is pleasant to think that in those early days I was aided by the members of a modest institution within the Johns Hopkins University, the so-called Vedic Seminary. The work of reading the several Vedic texts for the purpose of marking off properly the pādas and formulas I did of course myself; but, this important preliminary done, I would often turn to one or another of these my pupils a text or part of a text in order that they might transcribe the mantras upon slips. Portions of the first draft of a rough manuscript were also prepared by some of them from the slips after their partial arrangement. Not a little help was derived from their willing hands in these ways, and I desire here to recall the unselfish and enthusiastic spirit in which each gave what he could spare of time and labor. I hope that even those of them who aided least have not remained unremembered. The names of these scholars are as follows: ### [c4.s6.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.bloomfield-1906.c4.s6.3) Dr. F. R. BLAKE, Instructor in Oriental Languages in the Johns Hopkins University; Dr. G. M. BOLLING, Professor of Greek and Sanskrit in the Catholic University of America; M. BRANDOW, A.B., sometime Assistant Librarian in the Johns Hopkins University; Dr. H. L. EBELING, Professor of Greek in Hamilton College; Dr. C. J. GOODWIN, Professor of Greek in Lehigh University; Dr. J. E. HARRY, Professor of Greek in the University of Cincinnati; Dr. D. H. HOLMES, Instructor in the Classics, High School, Brooklyn; Dr. J. T. LEES, Professor of Greek in the University of Nebraska; Dr. H. W. MAGOUN, sometime Professor of Latin in Redfield College; Dr. J. L. MOORE, Professor of Latin in Vassar College; Dr. J. A. NESS, Instructor in Latin in Wittenberg College; Dr. R. B. STEELE, Professor of Latin in Vanderbilt University; and, finally, the late Dr. A. W. STRATTON, who was, at the time of his deeply lamented death, Registrar of the University of the Punjab and Principal of the Oriental College at Lahore, India, and Professor of Sanskrit. ### [c4.s6.4](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.bloomfield-1906.c4.s6.4) Professor ARTHUR A. MACDONELL, of the University of Oxford, kindly furnished me with a printer's proof of the index of Vedic pratīkas since then published on pages 105-114 of the first part of his edition of the Bṛhad-Devatā; and a similar kindness was done me by Professor MORITZ WINTERNITZ of the University of Prague, who made accessible to me the material of the Mantra-Pāṭha of the Āpastambins before it was published. The services of Professor HANNS OERTEL of Yale University, and of Professor FRIEDRICH KNAUER of the University of Kiew, and in particular of Professor LEOPOLD VON SCHROEDER of the University of Vienna I have already described above, at page ix. ### [c4.s6.5](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.bloomfield-1906.c4.s6.5) The editor of this Series, Professor CHARLES R. LANMAN of Harvard University, teacher, colleague, and friend, almost from the day when I began my Sanskrit studies in 1877, has brought to bear his great editorial talents upon this Concordance in every possible way. He has also found time to read one proof of a number of sheets (1-10 and 49-50). I can only regret that I have not had the benefit of his trusty eye and his sound scholarship for the bulk of the work, to the exclusion of many a blemish. ### [c4.s6.6](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.bloomfield-1906.c4.s6.6) It is a pleasure, finally, to remember my former pupil and friend, Mr. HENRY C. WARREN, of Cambridge, Massachusetts. Mr. Warren gained the respect of students of India by his scholarly volume, entitled Buddhism, a series of illustrative translations from the Sacred Books of the Buddhists (volume iii. of the Harvard Oriental Series). To his love of Oriental learning it is due that this Concordance and the other volumes of this Series are issued in a suitable and dignified form. At the close of this long labor, I record the kindly and substantial aid which he gave, while alive, to this undertaking; and I am glad to say that the enlightened provisions of his last will now further the studies that he loved in life. ### [c4.s6.7](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.bloomfield-1906.c4.s6.7) MAURICE BLOOMFIELD. ### [c4.s6.8](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.bloomfield-1906.c4.s6.8) BALTIMORE, October, 1906. --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.bloomfield-1906.c4.s6](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.bloomfield-1906.c4.s6) · Pramāṇa