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This volume, A Vedic Concordance, is part of the Harvard Oriental Series. This reprint of the 1906 edition is an alphabetic index to every line of every stanza of the published Vedic literature and to the liturgical formulas; it is an index to the Vedic mantras, together with an account of their variations in the different Vedic books.
This volume is expected to serve two purposes. 1. It gives a comprehensive index of all the mantras. 2. It registers the variants ...
The aim of this work is to present a grammatical and stylistic study of the entire mass of the variant readings in the repeated mantras of the Vedic tradition, as revealed primarily by Bloomfield's Vedic Concordance.
The Kausika Sutra is the sole extant treatise on the Atharvan ritual. The complete text, critically edited here from the MSS, has an exhaustive Introduction dealing with the material for editing the text, the date of composition of the Sutra, the relation of the Sutra to its Samhita, the lexicon of the Sutra's and their commentaries, the grammatical and orthodoxical notes.
The publication in India, in the year 1912, of Bhavadevasuri's Parsvanatha Caritra opens out, for the first time, a more connected and complete account of the life and teachings of the penultimate Jaina Tirthamkara, or Saviour, Parsva or Parsvanatha. The last Tirthamkara, Vardhamana or Nirgrantha Jnatrputra, best known as Vira or Mahavira, a historical personage, is supposed to have lived either in the last half of the sixth, or in the first half of the fifth ...