SAPTALAKSHANA PARISHKARAH

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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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