Macdonell, Arthur Anthony (1854-1930). Vedic grammar - PubMan

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Bühler, Georg
Grundriss der Zndo-arischen Philologie und
Altertumskunde
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Vedic Gi*urnar
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GRUNDRI88 DER INoO-ARISCHEN PHILOLOBIEU ND AL~EN'UMSKUMDE
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BEUKONDET VON G. BUHLPR, FORTGESETZT VON F. KIELNOW,
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INTRODUC'L'ION,
X, Oenerai Scope of this Work.-Vedic grammar has riever till now
been treated separateiy and as a rhole. Both in India and in the West
the subjcct has hitherto been haudted only in connexion with Clwical
Sa~knt. Hundreds of Pgpini's SCitrns deal with the ltrnguage of the Vedas;
but the account they give of it is anything but cornprehcrsive, In the West,
HmPm was the first, more than half a century ago (r8sa), to cornbine 2
description ol the linguistic peculiarities of the Vedas tvith an cccount of tlie
traditional matter of PIgini; but as Vedic studies were at tht time still in
their infancy, only the Sätnavedal and about onefourth of the Wedaa
having ns yet Ileen published, the Vedic materid utilized in his large pn~rna3r
was necesscinly very limited in extent. In Wirrrasv's workt the ianguage of
the Vedas, which is much more fuily represented, is treated in its liistorical
connexion with Cllassical Sanskrit, Partly for this reason, his work does not
supply a definite account of tlle grammar of the Sarpliitiis as compared
with that of the later phases of tlie kinytage; thus what is peculiar to the
Bruhma~ns or to a particular Satphitii iir often not apparent Professor
\\*ACK~RSAC~EL'gSm mniars, which when finished will present the ancient language
of India more completely than any other work on the subject, deals lsvith
the combined Vedic and post-Vedic materia hrn the point of view of
Cornparntive I'liilology. Different sections or individual poinis of Vedic
grrinitnar have been the subject of se!rarately pubiiid treatises or of special
articles scattered in various Onenhl cnd philological journalv or other tvorks
of a misceilnneous character. It is ndvk~bleth at all tliis rn well as additional
in;lteria16 sl~ouldn ow Le brought together so tis to afford a general survey
of the subject
In view of the prominent ~iositiono ccuyied by the Indo-Aryan brach
in Compmtive Philoioby and of the fact that the hguage of the Vedas
8 Edited by I~F&FEV, with Gcrmoli irnns., \VACK~RNAGEI.L L, au~IchreG, attingcn 1896;
lation and glossary, Iaipzig $848. i 11, r. Einloltung zur \I'ortlchre. Nomind-
\'ol. I editcd by blhX ~IULLER,1 .oudon ! kompositioa, 1905. (CI>il.A aTrfoLoMAn, Bei-
1849, vol. v1 1875; an* ed. London isgo- l triige zur dlindischrn Cranimatik, ZDMG.
92; cdited by AvirRecri~, Berlin 1861 and i 50, 674-735 i
rS6j Ivots. VI ond VII af Indiscbc Studien), j 6 Such ad itional material is sul>plicd in
ald cd. Boan 1877. ! this .werk from collectionii made Tor rnc by
3 Vollstindigc Grammatik der Sanskrit.! mp pupiis Prof. Zi. C. NORMAN(k ncuci)
sprache, Loipzig 1i85a. I frum tha Vfijarancyi Saiphiti~,a nd hir. A. B.
4 A Sanskrit Crnmmßr, LcipzIg 18791 3d 1' KE~TIPfr om the Tnittitr a bmhitlt, the
ed. 1896, Mantras in the bttarsya iqyak~u,d Uit
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5 Altindi~cha Grammatik von J~coaK bilas of tho ljgvcda,
Indo-Mchc Phiioiogca. 1, G 1