A Vedic Concordance

CONTENTS General plan of the Concordance The Concordance is part of a larger scheme vii Conditions of the problems which the Concordance involves vii Primary uses of the Concordance 1. It is a comprehensive index of all mantras vii 2. It registers the variants of mantras not wholly identical vii Secondary uses of the Concordance 1. It is a key to the liturgical employment of the mantras viii 2. It is virtually a finding-index of rites and practices viii 3. It is a tool for future editors of Vedic texts viii 4. It is a repertory of the most archaic Hindu prose viii 5. Miscellaneous uses (Vedic schools: grammar: mythology: etc.) viii Scope of the Concordance 1. Certain published texts not included ix 2. Unpublished texts included ix General statement of the number and kind of works included ix The Concordance rarely reports variants registered in the critical apparatus of a given edited texts x Orthographic details reported or neglected x Occasional suggestions of emendation x Future works complementary to the Concordance The working-up material of texts yet unedited x The elaboration of a reverse concordance x Acknowledgment of obligations To the University Press of Oxford xi To pupils and colleagues xi Explanations Introductory to the Use of the Concordance General scope of these explanations Bibliography of the works cited and abbreviations of their titles xiii Methods used in reporting the variants xiii General remarks on the character of the variants No hard and fast line between truly variant and vaguely similar passages xiii True variants. Uha-padas xiii Variants in padas other than the first xiii Essential similarity with wide divergence of wording xiii Cases of partial correspondence: At the beginning; at the end; in the middle xiv Methods used in reporting the variants 1. Variants for which the alphabetic order does not require more than one entry xiv 2. Variants involving more than one alphabetic entry xv Use of cross-references introduced by See xv Use of cross-references introduced by See under xv Use of cross-references introduced by Compare (Cf.) xv Bibliography of the works cited, with abbreviations of their titles Classified bibliography of the works cited in the Concordance xv Abbreviations 1. Alphabetic list of abbreviations of the titles of the cited texts xxi 2. List of a few other abbreviations used in the Concordance xxii Vedic Concordance Alphabetic list of Vedic mantras with citations and variants 1-1076 Additions and corrections 1077-1078