Vedic Tradition- Book review from The Hindu- SAPTALAKSHANA PARISHKARAH — Sanskrit Text with Commentary and Svara: P. Ramanuja

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Sanskrit

 

Vedic tradition

 

M. NARASIMHACHARY

 

 

 

SAPTALAKSHANA PARISHKARAH — Sanskrit Text with

Commentary and Svara: P. Ramanuja — Editor; Pub. by

Parankusacharya Vaidika Adhyayan Samstha (Regd.), 722,

5th D Cross, H.R.B.R. Block II, Kalyan Nagar,

Bangalore-560043. Price not specified.

 

THIS WORK is a manual on Krishna Yajurveda (Taittiriya

branch). It contains explanatory notes and

clarification of certain words, which, unless

explained clearly, may leave room for doubt about

their exact form. The purpose of the work is to remove

such doubts. For instance the words `Swah' and `Smah'

do not have the aspirate at the end when chanted in

the Samhita style (where the words are given in the

coalesced forms). But when chanted in the Pada-style

(where each word is separately given, without

coalescence), these words do have the final aspirate.

Unless this feature is explained, one will go away

with a wrong notion about the exact form of these

words.

 

The present text explains 2156 words under seven

heads: Shamaana, Vilanghya, Napara, Tapara, Avani,

Avarmi and Aningya. Different authors in different

styles have composed the commentaries on these.

 

The editor P. Ramanuja has done yeomen service for the

cause of Vedic tradition by bringing out this volume

in connection with the birth centenary of his father

Ghanapati Parankusacharya, a great scholar.

 

This is a boon to Vedic scholars who are sustaining,

even in the present age, the grand old tradition of

chanting Vedas with Svaras. The editor deserves praise

for this effort

 

 

 

 

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