The Religion and Philosophy of the Veda and Upanishads v2.c43.327

v2.c43.327

The Concordance enables us to find with ease: 1. where a given mantra occurs, if it occur but once; 2. if more than once, in what places; and 3. if with variants, what those variants are. Being in one volume, it is thus the most convenient register of Vedic variants available. It is also by far the most comprehensive. It covers such great texts as the Rig-Veda and Atharva-Veda exhaustively (these two alone require about 50,000 entries); and, exhaustively or selectively, it covers over 100 other texts. The book was printed, not from electrotype plates, but from type, and in an edition of 1000 copies, now half exhausted. The cost in money and labour was so great that the prospect of a new edition is very remote. For many decades it will maintain its value, an enduring monument to the industry and learning and resolute will of Professor Bloomfield.