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. A note on the size of the texts: ------------------------------------- A calculation of the size of the various texts has been made in akṣaras, on the basis of a few typical pages per text, and taking into account the relation of prose :: verses; 71 in a second stage, the size of the various Vedic texts has been compared in percentage to that of the RV which is set at 100%: ____________________________________________________________ RV 72 397.265 akṣaras RV = 100 % ŚS 176.389 ŚS = 44.44 % PS 274.560 PS = 69.11 % MS 392.619 MS = 98.83 % KS 337.808 KS = 85.03 % TS 281.569 TS = 70.87 % 71 Some of the texts that have been printed interspersed with commentary only (like TA, TB) have been difficult to calculate. Also, the exact relation of Mantras :: prose is difficult to estimate. The percentages given here should therefore be taken with caution; it will be better to rely, for the moment, on the absolute figures of occurrences of a particular phenomenon; the exact percentages wil have to be recalculated once a computer data base of the various Vedic texts is available, and exact figures can be obtained more easily. 72 Note the various new abbreviations introduced here for the convenience of distinguishing various levels of texts: PSk = PS calculated here acc. to ed. Raghu Vira, i.e. without some parts of PS 18 (Yama hymns). MSp + MS Saṃhitā prose (different from Mantra portions) KSa = Aśvamedha portion of KS (book V, perhaps < TS) ABo = AB older part: 1-5 ABn = AB newer part: 6-8 TBk = TB, Kāṭhaka portion: TB 3.10-12 TAk = TA, Kāṭhaka portion: TA 1-2 JBa = JB, Agnihotra portion: JB 1.1-65, younger than the rest JBc = JB in ed. Caland (Auswahl) ŚBMo = older portion: ŚBM 1-5 ŚBKo = older portion: ŚBK 1-7 ŚBMw = Western (Śāṇḍilya) portion: ŚBM 6-10 ŚBMn = newer portion (originally < ŚBK): ŚBM 11-13 ŚBMa = Āraṇyaka portion: ŚBM 14.1-3 ŚBMu = Upaniṣad portion: ŚBM 14.4-9 VādhB = Brāhmaṇa (Anvākhyāna) portions of the so-called Vādhūla Sūtra, which actually consist of at least two separate texts, the VādhB and the actual VādhŚS, see StII 1, p. 75 sqq. BŚSb = Brāhmaṇa portion of BŚS= book 18 (and some section in 17); ŚŚSb + Br. portions = 15.17-27, occasionally Br. portions in other ŚS, too (not used here). 34
VSM 96.120 VSM= 24.19 % VSK 94.231 VSK= 23.71 % AB 137.413 AB = 34.59 % ABo 1-5: 92.002 ABo= 23.15 % ABn 6-8: 45.411 ABn= 11.43 % AA 29.896 AA = 7.52 % KB 112.320 KB = 28.27 % @KA TB 285.474 TB = 72.10 % TBk 26.918 TBk= 6.77 % TA 207.658? TA = 52.27 %? TA 1-6: 169.470? TA1-6:42.65 %? ŚBM 608.8oo ŚB = 153.23 % ŚBKo 1-7: 278.888 ŚBKo 1-7 70.20 % ŚBMo 1-5: 260.337 ŚBMo 65.53 % ŚBMw 6-10 186.116 ŚBMw 46.84 % ŚBMn 11-13 103.811 ŚBMn 26.12 % ŚBMa 14.1-3 17.787 ŚBMa 4.47 % ŚBMu (BAU) 40.787 BAUM 10.26 % ŚBKu (BAU 67.144 BAUK 16.90 % JB 430.920 JB 108.47 % JBc 87.127 JBc 20.41 % JBa 1.1-65: 24.360 JBa 6.13 % PB 130.124 PB 32.75 % ChU 65.296 ChU 16.43 % JUB 63.448 JUB 15.97 % _________________________________________________________________ 35
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Page 3 and 4: 10.6. Conclusion and prospects 3
Page 5 and 6: * the better speech of the Northern
Page 7 and 8: * 1st: there are regional differenc
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Page 11 and 12: occurrence of the opt. in -īta (AB
Page 13 and 14: Furthermore, the comparatively grea
Page 15 and 16: the geographical data contained in
Page 17 and 18: The boundaries of various school te
Page 19 and 20: origin. It can also be noted that a
Page 21 and 22: The absolute date of the texts rema
Page 23 and 24: perhaps Māṇḍ.) AB KB PB JB Ait
Page 25 and 26: MGS VārGS KGS/LGS BGS *VādhGS BhG
Page 27 and 28: the period of the "free floating" m
Page 29 and 30: ones in other case forms: sāyāt,
Page 31 and 32: immediate surrounding dialects, cf.
Page 33: § 5 ESTABLISHING A PATTERN §5.0.
Page 37 and 38: In addition to these stray findings
Page 39 and 40: Therefore, the occurrence of -ai fo
Page 41 and 42: have changed this dialect. 99 We kn
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Page 45 and 46: were composed on the basis of an ea
Page 47 and 48: If one compares this with such deta
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Page 53 and 54: It is interesting to note that the
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Page 59 and 60: This result is interesting insofar
Page 61 and 62: The origin of the cluster ch is kno
Page 63 and 64: The distribution of kś also indica
Page 65 and 66: the SW Maitr., and the Kauth. SV (P
Page 67 and 68: N. India., and also its Sūtra, the
Page 69 and 70: While the preceding examples have i
Page 71 and 72: concludes that the preservation of
Page 73 and 74: 'tics', and mannerisms, introduced
Page 75 and 76: Southern Jaiminīya (originally a C
Page 77 and 78: eva Taitt., nu vāva ŚBK, (but nv
Page 79 and 80: were several occasions 225 where it
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Page 83 and 84: 17: Pāṇ.(?): after: bho,bhago,ad
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[túbhya hinvāná- u -avasiṣṭa
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PS 0? ŚS 0! KS 11 : 1293% (late TS
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must be made here. The Eastern Cent
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Even in subsections of a text, like
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The forms in -o- are restricted to
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collection; the Upaniṣad-like sec
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MU 0 BŚS 18: 2? TA 1 3 TA 10 10 TU
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various Middle Indian dialects inde
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The Ṛgvedic nom. pl. -āsaḥ 277
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Madhyadeśa (Taitt.) innovations (o
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events which the speaker or listene
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The strong occurrences in ŚB and J
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AB 4? KN 1 ? ŚBMw 1 ( 2) 306 JBc 4
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58 (Epileg.CPD I, s.v.tmesis). Nume
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* Sandhi -e/o a- > -a a Prācya (Ś
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the early Brāḥmaṇa text, AB 1-
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Vedic held sway over the Pañcālas
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the bhāṣika accent) is lost. Nor
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on an old Western SV Br. which used
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We therefore witness, as the outcom
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territories West of it on one hand,
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If we first limit ourselves strictl
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Post-Saṃhitā developments: loss
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attention to the general political
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500- NBP NBP NBP NBP ______________
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(MS,KS,TS) it immediately appears t
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Late Harappan | and | RV various sm
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| early in the | RV hymns composed
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ABn PB KA (PB?) AA, AitU AA 5 MU Ā
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The language of the Yajñagāthās
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