A Vedic Concordance c5.s1.22

c5.s1.22

**Cases of partial correspondence: At the beginning; at the end; in the middle.**—But so numerous are the cases of partial correspondence or minor parallelism between pādas or passages, that no amount of mere attentive observation can be expected to disclose them all. Set phrases, groups of two or three words—what Bergaigne used to call formulas—are, as every Vedist knows, the commonplace of Vedic technique. These set phrases may of course be located at the beginning or in the middle or at the end of a pāda or passage. Those at the beginning are revealed by this Concordance. Those at the end would be revealed by a reverse index (discussed above, in the Preface, at page x^b).¹ For those located neither at the beginning nor at the end, nothing short of a complete verbal index of the Vedic mantras, in which every pair or longer group of words should be placed side by side, could exhaust this important and interesting information about the texture of the mantras.