Bloomfield's Vedic Concordance

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An enlarged version of Bloomfield's Vedic Concordance -- di Marco

Franceschini

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Presenting an Enlarged Electronic Version of

Bloomfield's A Vedic Concordance

 

The files contained in the freely downloadable archive presented in

this site are the result of a research project undertaken by Marco

Franceschini at the Department of Oriental Studies of the University

of Turin: an enlarged electronic version of Bloomfield's 1906 A Vedic

Concordance is now available, five years after the first electronic

version of Bloomfield's original work. Some 20,000 mantras have been

added to the already considerable bulk of textual material contained

in Bloomfield's Concordance: the "new" mantras are taken from six

Vedic texts which were not included in the previous version or were in

need of major revision, namely Paippalada-Samhita (books 1-15),

Jaiminiya-Brahmana, Katha-Aranyaka, Manava-Srautasutra,

Jaiminiya-Grhyasutra and Varaha-Grhyasutra. The inner architecture of

Bloomfield's work has been preserved as far as possible, with all

added, emended or modified text being visualized in red. Please note

that the file also preserves the editorial "underlining device" used

by Dipak Bhattacharya in his critical edition of books 1-15 of

Paippalada-Samhita.

The archive, available in ".hqx" format for Mac OS and ".exe" format

for Windows, contains three separate files and one font: the rules

concerning the use of these files are described below ("Copyright

notice").

The file named Concordance is, of course, the working part of the

archive: it appears here in both a Macintosh word-processing format

(Nisus Writer©, about 7 Mb unstuffed), and a Windows one (MS Word,

about 9 Mb). In order to facilitate further work, the electronic

Concordance separates entries and references with a #-sign; moreover,

new entries are marked by a bullet (•). Please note that Nisus Writer

has a fully programmable Macro language for those who may want to

perform database-type searches through the file; moreover Nisus is now

freely downloadable from the Nisus site (www.nisus.com) in its 4.1.6

version.

Both formats come with their own font, named "Macind" and "Winind"

respectively. You must install either the Macind or the Winind font

before accessing the Concordance. Please note that the Macind and

Winind fonts are compatible with each other if the files are

transferred between MacOS and Windows, or vice-versa, with an

appropriate file conversion program such as Dataviz's MacLink© (it

is

advisable to split the main Concordance file into at least five parts

before converting).

The two files called Introduction and Abbreviations are a replica of

Bloomfield's chapters by the same name, and contain his explanations

on the structure of the work, and his comprehensive list of

bibliographical sources and abbreviations: relevant information

concerning the six Vedic texts this enlarged version of the

Concordance is based on have been added to these two files themselves.

 

Comments, suggestions and corrections will be appreciated, and may be

forwarded to Marco Franceschini at: bloom.

 

Bologna, March 2005

 

Marco Franceschini

 

Copyright notice

 

 

The electronic version of Maurice Bloomfield's A Vedic Concordance,

Cambridge (Mass.), 1906 (henceforth: Concordance) is copyright 1906,

2000, 2005 by Harvard University Press and Marco Franceschini

(henceforth: copyright holders). The Concordance may not be modified,

posted on information services, reproduced on microfilm, printed or

sold, either by itself or in combination with any other product,

without the express written permission of the copyright holders.

You are welcome to download the Concordance for purposes of research

or study; please quote it in your references if you make use of it in

research publications.

The Concordance is provided "as is" and without warranty, express and

implied, including, but not limited to, any implied warranties of

merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose. In no event will

the copyright holders be liable for any damages, including lost

profits, lost savings, or other incidental or consequential damages,

even if the copyright holders are advised of the possibility of such

damages, or for any claim by you or any third party.

 

>From the Preface:

 

GENERAL PLAN OF THE CONCORDANCE

 

The Concordance is part of a larger scheme. The plan of this work

dates back to the year 1892, when two separate announcements of it

were published – the one in the Proceedings of the American Oriental

Society (for April, 1892, Journal, volume xv, page clxxiii), and the

other in the Johns Hopkins University Circulars (for June, 1892,

volume xi, number 99). At that time, as the reader of either of these

announcements will see, I sketched the plan of a three-fold apparatus

designed to facilitate and deepen the study of the Vedas: one part of

it was a universal word-index to the Vedas; another was an index of

subjects and ideas; and the third, which I promised to undertake

myself, was a Vedic Concordance. As commonly happens in such cases,

the fulfilment of the last-named part of the plan cost much more time

and labor than was expected. With correspondingly greater satisfaction

I now present the result to those of the Hindu people who look upon

the Vedas as their sacred books, and to all scholars in this field of

Indian antiquities. That result is, an alphabetic index to every line

(or påda) of every stanza (or ®c) of the published Vedic literature

and to every liturgical formula thereof (yajus, pråißa, and so on),

that is, an Index to the Vedic Mantras.