A History of Sanskrit LiteratureMacdonell, Arthur Anthony
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A History of Sanskrit Literature
Macdonell, Arthur Anthony
Sanskrit literature -- History and criticism
Monier-Williams, Sanskrit-English Dictionary, 2nd ed., Oxford, 1899;
Macdonell, Sanskrit-English Dictionary (for selected hymns), London,
1893. Grammar: Whitney, Sanskrit Grammar, 3rd ed., Leipzig, 1896;
Wackernagel, op. cit., vol. i. (phonology); Delbrück, Altindische
Syntax (vol. v. of Syntaktische Forschungen), Halle, 1888; Speijer,
Vedische und Sanskrit Syntax in Bühler's Encyclopædia, Strasburg, 1896.
CHAPTERS IV. AND V.
Consult especially Macdonell, Vedic Mythology, in Bühler's
Encyclopædia, vol. iii. part 1 (complete bibliography), 1897; also
Kaegi, op. cit.; Muir, Original Sanskrit Texts, vol. v., 3rd ed.,
London, 1884; Barth, The Religions of India, English trans., London,
1882; Hopkins, The Religions of India, Boston, 1895; Oldenberg, Die
Religion des Veda, Berlin, 1894; Bergaigne, La Religion Védique, 3
vols., Paris, 1878-83; Pischel and Geldner, Vedische Studien, 2 vols.,
Stuttgart, 1889-92; Deussen, Allgemeine Geschichte der Philosophie,
vol. i. part 1: Philosophie des Veda, Leipsic, 1894. On method of
interpretation (pp. 59-64), cf. Muir, The Interpretation of the Veda,
in the Journal of the Roy. As. Soc., 1866. Page 68: On the modification
of the threefold division of the universe among the Greeks, cf. Kaegi,
op. cit., note 118. P. 128: On dice in India and the Vibhidaka tree,
cf. Roth in Gurupujakaumudi, pp. 1-4, Leipsic, 1896.
CHAPTER VI.
Consult especially Zimmer, Altindisches Leben, Berlin, 1879. On the
home of the Rigvedic Aryans (p. 145) cf. Hopkins, The Panjab and the
Rig-Veda, Journal of the Am. Or. Soc., 1898, p. 19 ff. On the Hamsa
(p. 150) cf. Lanman, The Milk-drinking Hansas of Sanskrit Poetry,
ibid., p. 151 ff. On the Vedic tribes (pp. 153-157), cf. Excursus I. in
Oldenberg's Buddha, Berlin, 1897. On the origin of the castes (p. 160)
cf. Oldenberg, Journal of the Germ. Or. Soc., 1897, pp. 267-290;
R. Fick, Die Sociale Gliederung im nordöstlichen Indien zu Buddha's
Zeit, Kiel, 1897.
CHAPTER VII.
Samaveda: text with German trans. and glossary, ed. by Benfey,
Leipsic, 1848; by Satyavrata Samaçrami, Calcutta, 1873 (Bibl. Ind.),
trans. by Griffith, Benares, 1893. Yajurveda: 1. Vajasaneyi Samhita,
ed. Weber, with the comm. of Mahidhara, London, Berlin, 1852;
trans. by Griffith, Benares, 1899; 2. Taittiriya Samhita, ed. (in
Roman characters) Weber, Berlin, 1871-72 (vols. xi.-xii. of Indische
Studien); also edited with the comm. of Madhava in the Bibl. Ind.;
3. Maitrayani Samhita, ed. (with introduction) by L. v. Schroeder,
Leipsic, 1881-86; 4. Kathaka Samhita, ed. in preparation by the
same scholar. Atharvaveda: text ed. Roth and Whitney, Berlin, 1856
(index verborum in the Journal of the Am. Or. Soc., vol. xii.);
trans. into English verse by Griffith, 2 vols., Benares, 1897,
and (with the omission of less important hymns) by Bloomfield into
English prose, with copious notes, vol. xlii. of the Sacred Books
of the East. Subject-matter: Bloomfield, The Atharvaveda in Bühler's
Encyclopædia, Strasburg, 1899.
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