Not an RV ms, but very palpable undeniable evidence that Vedas were written well before the colonial period:
https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674988262 On Thu, Oct 19, 2023, 11:46 AM Borayin Larios via INDOLOGY < [email protected]> wrote: > Dear Alakendu Das, > > With all due respect, what you present in your email is the traditional > view regarding the Vedas which is historically inaccurate. Indeed the oral > tradition of the Vedas has been strong for millennia and continues up to > these days among some Brahmin communities across India. However, the Vedas > were written down in precolonial times and we have enough evidence of this > before any orientalist such as Max Müller ever heard about the Vedas, > let alone compiled them into "books". Indeed, Max Müller never set foot in > India and thus never heard the Vedas first hand. He worked with Indian > manuscripts (while also consulting traditional pandits via correspondence). > This matter has been well documented by previous scholarship and indeed the > excellent work of Cezary Galewicz (and others) is a great place to start > with the complex question raised by Harry Spiers. For those interested in > the relationship between orality and literacy in the Vedas, particularly in > contemporary India can also refer to my OA book: Embodying the > Vedas.Traditional Vedic Schools of Contemporary Maharashtra > <https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110517323/html?lang=en>. > > > Greetings to all from India. > Borayin > > __________________ > *Dr. Borayin Larios* > Head of the Indology Department > French Institute of Pondicherry > 11, Saint Louis Street P.B.33, > Pondicherry 605001 > https://www.ifpindia.org/ > /// > Researcher at the École française d'Extrême-Orient > 19 rue Dumas > 605 001 Pondicherry, India > https://www.efeo.fr/base.php?code=227 > /// > Mobile: +91 8608252147 (Indian number) > Mobile: +43 676 5530274 (Austrian number) > about.me/borayin.larios > <https://about.me/borayin.larios?promo=email_sig&utm_source=product&utm_medium=email_sig&utm_campaign=edit_panel&utm_content=plaintext> > > > https://borayinlarios.academia.edu/ <https://borayinlarios.academia.edu/> > > > > > On Thu, Oct 19, 2023 at 9:44 PM alakendu das via INDOLOGY < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> >> Mr. Spier, >> >> What we have learnt from Indological studies, Vedas were never written. >> We call it "Apaurasheya"... i. e. not written. >> The Vedic Mantras came as revealations to the seers( we call them >> 'Drashta" i. e. one who sees) while in Meditation. >> The hymns or mantras were then recited orally and passed on across >> generations of disciples. who memorised them. >> Finally, sage Vyasa arranged a compilation and divided them among his 4 >> disciples namely, Poilo, Boishampayan, Jaimini and Sumanta. >> Thus we got the 4 Vedas >> >> In the 19th Century, Max Mueller edited the >> Vedas. >> >> Regards >> >> Alakendu Das. >> >> >> >> >> From: [email protected] >> Sent: Thu, 19 Oct 2023 19:40:15 >> To: "Hock, Hans Henrich" <[email protected]> >> Cc: McComas Taylor via INDOLOGY <[email protected]> >> Subject: Re: [INDOLOGY] Whitney and doubling of "ch" >> >> >> Hans Heinrich Hock wrote: >> >>> Whatever the motivation may be for the spelling with a single <ch> in >>> the Rig Veda (and let’s keep in mind that the “real” Rig Veda is oral), >>> >> 1) Can someone point me to some article on when and why the Rg-veda was >> first written down . what script etc. Was it a British initiative or was >> the whole or parts written down before the colonial period? I've seen in a >> modern Taittiriya Vedashala the students practicing some of their mantras >> using written material. Did the medieval and later Vedashalas also use >> written materials to teach their students? >> >> 2) Is it possible that this "Rg-veda written spelling gachati etc." is >> just a reflection of what was written when the Rg-veda was first written >> down? >> >> Thanks, >> Harry Spier >> >>> >>> >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> INDOLOGY mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://list.indology.info/mailman/listinfo/indology >> <//links.rediff.com/cgi-bin/red.cgi?red=https%3A%2F%2Flist%2Eindology%2Einfo%2Fmailman%2Flistinfo%2Findology&rediffng=1&rogue=73151f4b8b94d4114bc16fa2c1a9b8516d238f6e&rdf=V28DYAlnUzpdbVJjBjRXbwc1UzwAPlE6VWlZIVFjA2peeA==> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> INDOLOGY mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://list.indology.info/mailman/listinfo/indology >> > > _______________________________________________ > INDOLOGY mailing list > [email protected] > https://list.indology.info/mailman/listinfo/indology >
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