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Vedic Studies

Language, Texts, Culture, and Philosophy by: Hans Henrich Hock

This volume contains scholarly papers from the Veda Sessions of the 15th World Sanskrit Conference, touching a broad spectrum of the Vedic tradition and focusing on three major aspects of that tradition: language and linguistics; textual criticism and text edition; and culture, philosophy, mythology.

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ISBN: 9788124607275
Year Of Publication: 2014
Edition: 1st
Pages : viii, 244p.
Bibliographic Details : Foreword
Language : English
Binding : Hardcover
Publisher: D.K. Printworld Pvt. Ltd.
Size: 23
Weight: 660

Overview

The Vedas hold a position of prominence, both as the oldest documents of Sanskrit and as the most venerable texts of Hinduism.
This volume contains scholarly papers from the Veda Sessions of the 15th World Sanskrit Conference, touching a broad spectrum of the Vedic tradition and focusing on three major aspects of that tradition: language and linguistics; textual criticism and text edition; and culture, philosophy, mythology.
Language and linguistics papers range from syntax and semantics (Hock, Küummel) to morphology (Tucker), onomastics (Pinault) and rhetorical structure (Klein). Remarkably, three of the articles in the second part deal with the tradition of Atharvaveda (Bahulkar, Kulkarni, and Rotaru and Sumant); the remaining two focus on Rigveda (Khare and Köhler). Two papers in the last part deal with matters of Vedic philosophy (Benedetti and Vedi), one is devoted to mythology and ritual (Gadgil), and one addresses ritual and material culture (Nishimura).

Contents

Foreword
– Radhavallabh Tripathi
Introduction
– Hans Henrich Hock
Part I
Language and Linguistics
1. Predicate Order in Vedic Prose
– Hans Henrich Hock
2. Interstanzaic Repetition in the Rigveda
– Jared S. Klein
3. Panini 5.3.5 and the Function of Sanskrit etád
– Martin Joachim Kümmel
4. About the Names of Some Vedic Poets
– Georges-Jean Pinault
5. Compounds of the type vajambhara- and brahmakara in the Rigveda and Atharvaveda
– Elizabeth Tucker
Part 2
Textual Criticism and Text Edition
6. Medhajanana in the Atharvaveda Tradition
– S.S. Bahulkar
7. Aitareya Aranyaka and the Origin and Development of the Mahanamna Verses
– Ambarish Khare
8. Some Thoughts on padavi and padam véh
– Frank Köhler
9. Text-critical Study of the Pativedanani Section of the Kaushika-Sutra
– Nirmala R. Kulkarni
10. A New Edition and an Annotated Translation of the Kaushika-Sutra
– Julieta Rotaru and Shilpa Sumant
Part 3
Culture, Philosophy, Mythology
11. The Objects and Contexts of Vision of the Rishis in the Pancavimsha Brahmana
– Giacomo Benedetti
12. Feminine Aspect of the Sun: Vedic, Puranic, and Popular
– Mugdha Gadgil
13. Processing of Dairy Products in the Vedic Ritual, Compared with Pali
– Naoko Nishimura
14. Upanishatsu Vaishvanarasankalpana
– Chetana Vibhuti Vedi
Contributors

Meet the Author
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The editor, Hans Henrich Hock, is Emeritus Professor of Linguistics and Sanskrit, University of Illinois. His major publications include the edited volume Studies in Sanskrit Syntax (Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1991) and An Early Upanishadic Reader (Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 2007). He has published extensively on all aspects of Sanskrit language and linguistics, including “The Yajnavalkya Cycle in the Brihad-Aranyaka-Upanishad”, Festschrift for Stanley Insler, ed. S. Jamison and J. Brereton (special issue of Journal of the American Oriental Society, 122(2): 278-86, 2002).
Books of Hans Henrich Hock