A Vedic Word Concordance

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A Vedic Word Concordance (

Ur-Aryan
philology".

Contents

The work covers 123,000 word-bases and 5,000,000 word forms found in about 400 Vedic and

Aranyakas and Upanishads (even very late ones). The Vedanga section does not cover all the published Shrauta or Grihya texts, however, while the Upanishad section also includes the Bhagavad Gita
.

The concordance extends to about 11,000 pages, published in 16 parts:[1]

  • Section: Samhitas (6 parts), 1942–1963.
  • Section II: Brahmanas and Aranyakas (2 parts), 1935–36
  • Section III: Upanishads (2 parts), 1945
  • Section IV: Vedangas (4 parts), 1958–1961
  • Index (2 parts), 1964–65.

A revised and enlarged edition was published 1973–1976.

History of development

Viśvabandhu Śāstrī continued the work of Vishveshvaranand and Nityanand, who had published word indices to the four Vedic Samhitas in 1908–1910, leading the Vishveshvaranand Institute from 1924 until his death in 1973.[2]

After the

Panjab University, Chandigarh as the Vishveshvaranand Institute of Sanskrit and Indological Studies (VISIS).[2]

Based on the Vedic Word Concordance, the institute currently compiles a Dictionary of Vedic Interpretation, of which the first volume, running up to the lemma Agni, has been completed.

Editions

  • Vishva Bandhu, Bhim Dev, S. Bhaskaran Nair (eds.), Vaidika-Padānukrama-Koṣa: A Vedic Word-Concordance, Vishveshvaranand Vedic Research Institute, Hoshiarpur, 1963–1965.

References

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  2. ^ a b "Education in Hoshiarpur". Hoshiarpur District Administration. Archived from the original on 2018-04-14. Retrieved 2008-12-23.

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