[Advaita-l] Two good books for taittirIya shAkhA students

Shyam Subramanian shyamsub at gmail.com
Fri Jun 30 14:21:59 EDT 2017


Namaste Sri Rama,

Thanks for the references. Is this (
http://www.exoticindiaart.com/book/details/taittriya-samhita-pada-patha-NZE780/)
the first book you are referring to?

dhanyavAdaH,
Shyam


On Fri, Jun 30, 2017 at 11:33 PM, Vidyasankar Sundaresan via Advaita-l <
advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:

> Thanks Rama. I looked for the first book you mention, at MLBD, Giri Trading
> and Jayalakshmi Indological bookstores in Chennai recently, but none of
> them had it. If you find an online source for it, keep the list posted.
>
> Vidya
>
>
> On Fri, Jun 30, 2017 at 9:26 AM, Balasubramanian Ramakrishnan via Advaita-l
> <advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:
>
> > Hello all,
> >
> > Recently I acquired two books which will be of interest to students of
> the
> > taittirIya shAkhA:
> >
> > 1. taittirIya-yajur-veda pada-pAThaH, edited by vishvanAtha shrautI and
> > nArAyaNa shastrI in devanagari script. This has a very learned
> introduction
> > by the great paNDita yudhiShThira mImAmsaka. I am not sure who has
> provided
> > the footnotes, seems to be yudhiShThira mImamAsaka, and this is a unique
> > feature of this book compared to previous grantha versions available in
> > Tamil Nadu. Sandhi and other issues when going from the saMhitA to the
> pada
> > pATha requires knowledge of veda-lakShaNa and can be quite tricky. The
> > footnotes provide detailed references to the prAtishAkhya and shikShA
> texts
> > when these happen, as well as explanations of these. It's a really
> > outstanding work of scholarship. The book has been published by the
> Ramlal
> > Kapoor Trust in Haryana and is priced at a meager Rs 300, which is a
> > ridiculously low price for such a fantastic book. The fonts are
> beautiful,
> > as is the binding and it is a pleasure to just hold and look through the
> > book.
> >
> > 2.  kR^iShNa yajurveda taittirIya shAkhA anubandhaH, kuLattu
> hariharaputra
> > sharma and released by shrI bhAratI tIrtha svAminaH. It contains
> fantastic
> > material such as anuvAkA by anuvAka content description of the entire
> > taittirIya corpus and cross references to the correct mantra or brAhmaNa
> > portions for each anuvAka. It's a fantastic compilation and only Rs 200.
> He
> > also seems to have put the entire book online at
> > http://kulathu.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Thaitriya-Samh
> > ita-Anubandha-Part1.pdf
> >
> > Rama
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