A Vedic Concordance c5.s3.t1: Class 1. Saṃhitās

A Vedic Concordance c5.s3.t1

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Class 1. Saṃhitās

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**RV.** The Rig-Veda or Rik-Saṃhitā. Die Hymnen des Rigveda. Herausgegeben von Theodor Aufrecht. Two volumes. Second edition. Bonn, 1877. This is an edition of the Rig-Veda in the recension or school (çākhā) of the Çakalās. The unimportant differences, wholly traditional and uncertain, that seem to have existed between this recension and the other, that of the Vāṣkalas, are not incorporated in the Concordance. See H. Oldenberg, Die Hymnen des Rigveda, Band i., Metrische und textgeschichtliche Prolegomena, Berlin, 1888, pages 490 ff.

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**RVkh.** The so-called khilas or khāilikāni sūktāni, appendices or apocryphal paralipomena, pertaining to the Rig-Veda. They are taken from Aufrecht's edition of the Rig-Veda, vol. ii., pages 672 ff. Some additional stanzas of this kind I have culled from F. Max Müller's second quarto edition of the Rig-Veda, London, 1892, vol. iv., pages 520 ff. The tradition of these stanzas is floating and uncertain, and calls for an independent systematic elaboration. See Oldenberg, l.c., pages 503 ff; and Macdonell, The Bṛhad-Devatā, part ii., pages xxx ff.

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**AV.** The Atharva-Veda-Saṃhitā (School of the Çaunakas). Herausgegeben von R. Roth und W. D. Whitney. Berlin, 1856. Even in those parts where the editors have altered the manuscript readings most freely, the Concordance cites (as already noted, above, page xᵃ) the printed text; but occasional reference is made to the readings of the manuscripts and to those of the edition of Shankar Pandurang Pandit, Bombay, 1895–1898.

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**AVP.** The Kashmirian Atharva-Veda (School of the Paippalādas), reproduced by chromophotography from the manuscript in the University Library at Tübingen, by Maurice Bloomfield and Richard Garbe. Baltimore, 1901. Only occasional reference is made to this important Saṃhitā. It was not feasible to utilize for the Concordance the material of this text, since the manuscript is unique, and bristles with errors on every folio. The first book of AVP. has recently been edited by Dr. L. C. Barret in the Journal of the American Oriental Society, vol. xxvi.

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**SV.** Sāmavedāreikam. Die Hymnen des Sāma-Veda. Herausgegeben von Theodor Benfey. Leipzig, 1848. In accordance with the usual custom, the stanzas of each of the two main divisions of the work are numbered continuously.

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**ArS.** Āraṇya-Saṃhitā (or Āraṇyaka-Saṃhitā) of the Sāma-Veda, with the commentary of Sāyaṇa Ācārya, and a Bengali translation by Satya Brata Samasrami. Edited by Jīvānanda Vidyāsāgara. Calcutta, 1873. Mahānāmnyaḥ. A litany belonging to the Sāma-Veda and frequently quoted in the ritual. See Sāma-Veda-Saṃhitā as edited by Satyavrata Sāmācrami in the Bibliotheca Indica, vol. ii., pages 366 ff. Calcutta, 1874 and following.

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**VS.** The Vājasaneyi-Saṃhitā in the Mādhyamdina-Çākhā. Edited by Dr. Albrecht Weber. Berlin and London, 1852.

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**VSK.** The Vājasaneyi-Saṃhitā in the Kāṇva-Çākhā. The variants of this recension of the White Yajur-Veda are given by Weber at the end of each section in the edition described in the preceding article. These variants have been embodied in the Concordance. In cases where there is no separate report for VSK., it is to be understood that the Kāṇva-Çākhā agrees with the Mādhyamdina-Çākhā.

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**TS.** Die Taittirīya-Saṃhitā. Herausgegeben von Albrecht Weber. Indische Studien, volumes xi. and xii. Leipzig, 1871–1872.

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**MS.** Maitrāyaṇī-Saṃhitā. Herausgegeben von Dr. Leopold von Schroeder. Four volumes. Leipzig, 1881–1886.

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**KS.** Kāṭhakam. Die Saṃhitā der Kaṭha-Çākhā. Herausgegeben von Leopold von Schroeder. First volume. Leipzig, 1900. The remainder of this text is still unpublished.

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As stated above, page ixᵇ, I made a special journey to Vienna in the year 1902, for the purpose of excerpting from Dr. von Schroeder's manuscript copies the entire remaining material of this Saṃhitā. Through the kindness of that scholar I was enabled to accomplish my purpose; but a certain amount of indulgence is asked for my statements relating to the Kāṭhaka, taken as they are from unedited material. The comparison of my excerpts with parallel passages from other texts is also likely to be somewhat less complete and exact than usual.

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KSA. Kāṭhaka-Saṃhitā, Aṣvamedha-Grantha. The Kāṭhaka-Saṃhitā professes to consist of five books. The first, already edited, is designated as iṭhimikā; the second, as madhyamikā; the third, as orimikā. Under the circumstances detailed in the note immediately following, it has seemed best to devise an independent designation (KSA.) for this part of the work, the Aṣvamedha-Grantha.

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At the end of book iii., the colophon reads as follows: ity ekottaraṣaṭācākhādhvaryuprabhedabhinne śrīmadyajurvede kāṭhake cara-kaṣākhāyām orimikāyām hiraṇyagarbhaṃ nāma catvāriṃśaṃ sthā-nakaṃ saṃpūrṇam || bhadram astu saṃpūrṇā ceyam orimikā || śrī-granthatraye madhyapaṭhitāc ca yājyānuvākyā saṃpūrṇāḥ || asmin granthatrayābhyantare yājyānuvākyā nāma caturtho granthaḥ. That is to say, the redactors of this Saṃhitā seem to regard the yājyānuvākyā-stanzas contained in the first three books as the fourth book of the Saṃhitā, perhaps to match the yājyānuvākyā collection at the end of the book of the Māitrāyaṇī. At all events, there is no such book in the known manuscripts of the Kāṭhaka. After the orimikā follows directly the last book of the Kāṭhaka, devoted to the aṣvamedha. Now this the redactors boldly advertise as the fifth book of the Kāṭhaka. At the beginning stands the legend, aṣvamedho nāma pañcamo granthaḥ; at the end, ity ekottaraṣaṭādhvaryuṣākhāprabhedabhinne śrīmadyajurvedakāṭhake carakaṣākhāyām aṣvamedho nāma pañcamo granthaḥ saṃpūrṇaḥ.