An Updated Vedic Concordance. (2007) (original) (raw)

"An Updated Vedic Concordance", Harvard Oriental Series 66 (2 vols and CD), Cambridge (Mass.)-Milano: Harvard University Press and Mimesis Edizioni, 2007.

This work is a partial but significant update of Maurice Bloomfield’s monumental Vedic Concordance, published in 1906 by Harvard University Press. Altogether, more than 30,000 mantras have been added to the bulk of the original textual material, taken from seven Vedic texts which were not included in Bloomfield’s work or were in need of major revision – namely: Paippalāda Saṃhitā (kāṇḍas 1-15), Jaiminīya Brāhmaṇa, Kaṭha Āraṇyaka, Baudhāyana Śrautasūtra, Mānava Śrautasūtra, Jaiminîya Gṛhyasūtra, and Vārāha Gṛhyasūtra. Of these mantras, more than 8,000 – mostly taken from Paippalāda Saṃhitā and Baudhāyana Śrautasūtra – are new to the Concordance and seemingly unrelated to any mantra already listed in it; while 4,500 more show previously unknown variants with respect to known mantras. Franceschini, Marco. An Updated Vedic Concordance. Harvard Oriental Series 66 (2 volumes and CD), Cambridge (Mass.)-Milano: Harvard University Press and Mimesis Edizioni. 2007. [ISBN: 978-0-674-03080-0]