An Updated Vedic Concordance

This work is a partial but significant update of Maurice Bloomfield’s monumental Vedic Concordance, published in 1906 by Harvard University Press. Altogether, more than 30,000 mantras have been added to the bulk of the original textual material, taken from seven Vedic texts which were not included in Bloomfield’s work or were in need of major revision – namely: Paippalāda Saṃhitā (kāṇḍas 1-15), Jaiminīya Brāhmaṇa, Kaṭha Āraṇyaka, Baudhāyana Śrautasūtra, Mānava Śrautasūtra, Jaiminīya Gṛhyasūtra, and Vārāha Gṛhyasūtra. Of these mantras, more than 8,000 – mostly taken from Paippalāda Saṃhitā and Baudhāyana Śrautasūtra – are new to the Concordance and seemingly unrelated to any mantra already listed in it; while 4,500 more show previously unknown variants with respect to known mantras. Besides this, some 900 slips have been emended: all the ones pointed out by Edgerton and Bloomfield in their three volumes of Vedic Variants, along with others noticed during the updating process. Finally, as the system of numerical references used by Bloomfield for the Mānava Śrautasūtra was found to be faulty, that text has been entirely re-checked and the mantras organized on a different basis.