Grassmann’s “Wörterbuch des Rig-Veda” (Dictionary of Rig-Veda): a milestone in the study of Vedic Sanskrit

Maria Kozianka ()
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Maria Kozianka: Außendienststelle: Lehrstuhl für Indogermanistik, Etymologisches Wörterbuch desAlthochdeutschen, Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig

A chapter in From Past to Future: Graßmann's Work in Context, 2011, pp 353-361 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The RV, translated literally as “the knowledge of the hymns of praise”, is the oldest literary monument of the Indian language. It contains 1,028 hymns (s¯ukt¯as), that are distributed among ten books or song cycles (man.d.al¯as) according to clearly recognisable principles. The division into ten books is not coincidental. Books II–VII, the so-called family books, stem from important families of poets. man.d.al¯a IXcontains mainly songs to Soma.

Keywords: Indian Language; Vedic Text; Sanskrit Grammar; Present Stem; Nominative Plural (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-0346-0405-5_31

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