Prolegomena on Metre and Textual History of the Rgveda (Metrische und textgeschichtliche Prolegomena, Berlin, 1888)
Oldenberg, Hermann
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Book ID : 27867
ISBN-10 : 81-208-0986-6 / 8120809866
ISBN-13 : 978-81-208-0986-4 / 9788120809864
Place
of Publication :
Delhi
Year
of Publication :
2005
Edition : (Fifth Edition)
Language : English
Translated into English by V.G. Paranjape & M.A. Mehendale; xiv, 507p., Tables, Index, 23 cm.
CONTENTS
CONTENTS:- 1. The Prosody of Rgveda. 2. The Arrangement of the Samhita. 3. The Rk-text and the Text of the Later Samhitas and the Brahmanas. 4. The Orthoepic Diaskeuasis. 5. The Sakala and the Vaskala-Sakha. 6. The Rk-Text and the Sutra-Literature.
DESCRIPTION
This volume were intended by Oldenberg to serve as a preface to his proposed edition of the Rgveda. They represent the results of Oldenberg's extensive studies on Vedic metre, principles underlaying the arrangment of the hymns in the Rgveda Samhita, variations found in the text of the mantras as found in the Rgveda and the later samhitas and the Brahmanas, orthoepic diaskenasis, and the two sakhas of the rgveda: Sakala and Bhaskala.
