Dear Colleagues, Last year I published preliminary editions of a number of Sāmavedic texts — two of them, the Jaimini-Kalpa and the Jaimini+Paryadhyāya, previously unknown —, all with the excellent commentary of Bhavatrāta (or his student and son-in-law Jayanta), who lived in Kerala around 700 CE, and from whom we learn very much about Sāmaveda. The commentaries were first published in 1966 by Premnidhi Shastri on the basis on a single corrupt manuscript and (with the exception of the JŚS) without the knowledge of the texts they are commenting, while the present editions are based on the best existing mss. The commentary on the JGS has not been published before.
All these texts appeared in the Electronic Journal of Vedic Studies, vol. 27 (2023), issues 1-10 and can be downloaded free of charge: Parpola, Asko, 2023. Jaimini-Śrauta-Sūtra with Bhavatrāta’s Vṛtti and Śrauta-kārikā. Preliminary edition. Electronic Journal of Vedic Studies vol. 27 (2023) issue 1. ii+186 pp. https://hasp.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/journals/ejvs/article/view/21907/21314 Parpola, Asko, 2023. Jaimini-Kalpa with Bhavatrāta-Vṛtti. 1: Stomakalpa. Preliminary edition. Electronic Journal of Vedic Studies vol. 27 (2023) issue 2. ii + 124 pp. https://hasp.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/journals/ejvs/article/view/21908/21315 Parpola, Asko, 2023. Jaimini-Kalpa with Bhavatrāta-Vṛtti. 2: Prākṛta-Kalpa. Preliminary edition. Electronic Journal of Vedic Studies vol. 27 (2023) issue 3. ii + 87 pp. https://hasp.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/journals/ejvs/article/view/21909/21316 Parpola, Asko, 2023. Jaimini-Kalpa with Bhavatrāta-Vṛtti. 3: Saṃjñā-Kalpa. Preliminary edition. Electronic Journal of Vedic Studies vol. 27 (2023) issue 4. ii + 58 pp. https://hasp.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/journals/ejvs/article/view/21910/21317 Parpola, Asko, 2023. Jaimini-Kalpa with Bhavatrāta-Vṛtti. 4: Vikṛti-Kalpa. Preliminary edition. Electronic Journal of Vedic Studies vol. 27 (2023) issue 5. ii + 340 pp. https://hasp.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/journals/ejvs/article/view/21911/21313 Parpola, Asko, 2023. Jaimini-Kalpa with Bhavatrāta-Vṛtti. 5: Appendices: Indexes to Jaiminīya-Ūha-Gāna & Jaiminīya-Ūhya-Gāna. Preliminary edition. Electronic Journal of Vedic Studies vol. 27 (2023) issue 6. ii + 217 pp. https://hasp.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/journals/ejvs/article/view/22020/21424 Parpola, Asko, 2023. Jaimini-Paryadhyāya (Jaimini-Sūtra-Pariśeṣa) with commentaries of Bhavatrāta and Jayanta. Preliminary edition. Part 1: Khaṇḍas 1-28. Electronic Journal of Vedic Studies vol. 27 (2023) issue 7. ii + 214 pp. https://hasp.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/journals/ejvs/article/view/22036/21437 Parpola, Asko, 2023. Jaimini-Paryadhyāya (Jaimini-Sūtra-Pariśeṣa) with commentaries of Bhavatrāta and Jayanta. Preliminary edition. Part 2: Khaṇḍas 29-85. Electronic Journal of Vedic Studies vol. 27 (2023) issue 8. ii + 255 pp. https://hasp.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/journals/ejvs/article/view/22141/21535 Parpola, Asko. 2023. Jaiminiiya-Ārṣeya-Brāhmaṇa (key passages) with the Vṛtti of Jayanta. Preliminary edition. Electronic Journal of Vedic Studies vol. 27 (2023) issue 9. ii + 22 pp. https://hasp.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/journals/ejvs/article/view/22275/21679 Parpola, Asko, 2023. Jaimini-Gṛhya-Sūtra with Bhavatrāta-Vṛtti and Gṛhya-kārikā. Preliminary edition. Electronic Journal of Vedic Studies vol. 27 (2023) issue 10. i + 250 pp. https://hasp.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/journals/ejvs/issue/view/1330 I wanted to have printed copies of these texts for ready reference, and placed an order for the following five books now produced by Books on Demand (BoD). Thinking that some of you might be interested in this possibility to acquire printed versions of the texts, I am giving their titles, ISBNs and other bibliographic information below: Jaimini-Gṛhya-Sūtra with Bhavatrāta's Vṛtti and Gṛhya-kārikā, edited by Asko Parpola. Helsinki: Books on Demand, 2024. iv, 250 pp. [Reprint of EJVS 27 (2023), issue 10.] Pb ISBN 978-952-808-555-3. 28,90 €. Jaimini-Śrauta-Sūtra with Bhavatrāta’s Vṛtti and Śrauta-kārikā, edited by Asko Parpola. Helsinki: Books on Demand, 2024. iv, 186 pp. [Reprint of EJVS 27 (2023), issue 1.] Pb ISBN 978-952-808-359-7. 22,90 €. Jaimini-Paryadhyāya (Jaimini-Sūtra-Pariśeṣa) with commentaries of Bhavatrāta and Jayanta, edited by Asko Parpola. Helsinki: Books on Demand, 2024. iv, 214 + ii, 255 = 475 pp. [Reprint of EJVS 27 (2023), issues 7-8.] Pb ISBN 978-952-808-552-2. 47.90 €. Jaimini-Kalpa with Bhavatrāta-Vṛtti. 1. Stoma-Kalpa. 2. Prākṛta-Kalpa. 3. Saṃjñā-Kalpa, edited by Asko Parpola. Helsinki: Books on Demand, 2024. iv, 124 + ii, 88 + ii, 58 = 278 pp. [Reprint of EJVS 27 (2023), issues 2-4.] Pb ISBN 978-952-808-357-3. 47,90 € Jaimini-Kalpa with Bhavatrāta-Vṛtti. 4. Vikṛti-Kalpa. 5. Appendix: Indexes to Jaiminīya-Ūha-Gāna & Jaiminīya-Ūhya-Gāna, edited by Asko Parpola. Helsinki: Books on Demand, 2024. iv, 340 + ii, 217 + ii, 22 = 587 pp. [Reprint of EJVS 27 (2023), issues 5-6 & 9.] Pb ISBN 978-952-808-435-8. 56.90 €. The price of the books has been fixed by BoD; the prices given above are from the BoD bookshop in Finland (netpage unfortunately in Finnish only). The books can be bought through Amazon and many other bookshops world over, but one can expect that the mediators will add their profit margin to the prices. As the books are printed only according to demand, they cannot be delivered instantly: you may get the book only a couple of weeks after placing the order. With best wishes, also for Merry Christmas and Happy New Year 2025, Asko
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