A Concise Encyclopaedia of Hinduism
author: Swami Harshananda
edition: 2008, Ramakrishna Math
pages: 2084
ISBN-13: 9788179070574
Topic: Hinduism
Encyclopaedia of Hinduism - Padapatha
This page describes Padapatha which is located on page 460 of the second volume in the book: A Concise Encyclopaedia of Hinduism by Swami Harshananda. This book, known as “a concise encyclopaedia of hinduism”, includes a vast amount of topics covering general aspects on Hinduism, but also contains important aspects regarding Buddhism, Jainism and Sikhism This page contains an online preview of the full text and summarizes technical terms, as well as information if you want to buy this book.
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Vakyapadiya of Bhartrihari [by K. A. Subramania Iyer]
If the other tradition, namely, that of the separated words (padapatha) shows the way to the connected text and is eternal, how is the separated text to be constituted according to the rules? Commentary A statement of Patanjali is now explained. The very fact that Patanjali says that the authors of the padapatha have to follow the rules in doing their work shows that, according to him, that text is man-made....
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Vakyapadiya (study of the concept of Sentence) [by Sarath P. Nath]
Shakalya s Padapatha of Rigveda is also one of the earlier attempts of language analysis. The Rigveda, originally in the samhita form has been broken down into words in this Padapatha. In Brihaddevata, Shaunaka defines a sentence as the group of words and words as the group of phonemes (2. 117). We can find similar analytical methodology in Pratishakhyas also. But the systematic analysis of speech begins from the time of Yaska, who analysed the speech on the basis of etymology....
Read full contents: 3. The Basic Problems of the Philosophy of Language
Women in the Atharva-veda Samhita [by Pranab Jyoti Kalita]
This recension is not accented and is not accompanied by padapatha. It is divided into twenty books, which are, again, divided into some anuvakas. Each of the anuvakas contains some kandikas and the kandikas, again, consist of the mantras. This recension of the Atharvaveda contains six thousand and five hundred mantras as represented by the Kashmir manuscript and eight thousand mantras as represented by the Orissa manuscript....
Read full contents: 4. Recensions of the Atharvaveda
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