The abbreviations undoubtedly are dra. = draṣṭavyam = cf., and Mā. Saṃ. = Mādhyandina-Saṃhitā = Vājasaneyi-Saṃhitā in the Mādhyandina recension. B. R. Sharma passed away before he could publish the promised third volume of his SV-Saṃhitā edition, i.e. the book has not come out. With best wishes, Asko
Asko Parpola Professor emeritus of Indology/South Asian Studies, University of Helsinki > On 28. May 2024, at 17.10, Ilya Comet via INDOLOGY > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Dear fellow Indologists, > > This is my first message to the list, and so I take the opportunity to salute > all of you. > > > > > Recently, I wanted to consult the following work by Bellikoth Ramachandra > Sharma, published in the Harvard Oriental Series: > > Sāmaveda samhitā of the Kauthuma school : with Padapāṭha and the commentaries > of Mādhava, Bharatasvāmin and Sāyaṇa. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard > University Press. > > I found it in my library in two volumes: vol. 1 containing the Pūrvārcika > (published in 2000, n. 57 in the series) and vol. 2 = Uttarārcika (2001, n. > 58). However, in the preface of both volumes, the author speaks of a total of > three volumes to be published, the last one being planned in 2002 and > containing, among others, an introduction (and a list of abbreviations). > However, I have not been able to find this third volume anywhere, not even in > the Karlsruhe Virtual Catalog. > > > Does anyone know whether the third volume has actually come out? And if it > has, where is it available? > > > > > > The specific information I am looking for is the meaning of an abbreviation > (in bold here) used by the editor, in the following passage from vol. 1 p. 3 > or 4: > > - aganma jyotir amr̥tā abhūma | antarikṣaṃ pr̥thivyā adhy āruhāma | divam > antarikṣād adhy āruhāma | avidāma devān sam u devair aganmahi | dra. Mā. Saṃ. > 8.52 > > - un nayāmi | Mā. Saṃ 31.5 > > > These are mantras quoted by the commentator Mādhava in his introduction. That > passage contains several mantras that I could not trace back (exactly) to > extant texts, even outside the Sāmaveda-saṃhitā. In the first instance, the > first pāda corresponds to VS 8.52 but the rest doesn’t; the Updated > Concordance returned no results for the whole mantra. But the editor B R > Sharma seems to have identified something similar in another text, > abbreviated Mā. Saṃ., which he invites us to look at (dra. = draṣṭavyam?). > The second passage, which the Concordance identifies as Kaṭha-saṃhitā 11.8, > is apparently also found in that mysterious text. > > > I expect it to be the name of a Saṃhitā or at least a Vedic text, but which? > The Maitrāyaṇī has only 4 chapters, and I can’t think of a name of a Saṃhitā > that starts with Mā... > > > > Any ideas or suggestions would be very helpful! > > > > > Thank you, > > Ilya Comet > > > > Ilya Comet > > PhD Candidate, University of Louvain > > FRS-FNRS Research Fellow > > > _______________________________________________ > INDOLOGY mailing list > [email protected] > https://list.indology.info/mailman/listinfo/indology
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