Moving targets? Texts, language, archaeology and history in the Late Vedic and early Buddhist periods

Indo-Iranian Journal

Volumn 52, Issue 2-3, 2009, Pages 287-310

  Witzel, Michael ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ajatasattu; ascetics; Bimbisara; Buddha; Buddhist canon; chandas; Herodotus; Kosala; Magadha; P mni; Pali; Pasenadi; Upanisad; urbanization; Vajji; Veda; Videha

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864440390     PISSN: 00197246     EISSN: 15728536     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/001972409X12562030836859     Document Type: Article

References (25)

1. Cf. J. Bronkhorst, Greater Magadha Studies in the Culture of Early India. Leiden: Brill 2007.
2. M. Witzel, The Development of the Vedic Canon and its Schools: The Social and Political Milieu. In: Inside the Texts, Beyond the Texts. New Approaches to the Study of the Vedas. Harvard Oriental Series. Opera Minora, vol. 2. Cambridge, 1997: 257-345;
3. cf. L. Patton, Authority, Anxiety and Canon. Essays in Vedic interpretation. Albany, SUNY Press, 1994; Bronkhorst
4. O. v. Hinüber, Hoary past and hazy memory, JIABS 9, 2008, p. 209.
5. For this, see J. Bronkhorst, Greater Magadha; cf. nevertheless the question of asceticism, below.
6. M. Witzel, On the localisation of Vedic texts and schools. In: G. Pollet (ed.), India and the Ancient world. History, Trade and Culture before ad650. P.H.L. Eggermont Jubilee Volume
7. Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 25, Leuven, 1987: 173-213; cf. K. Mylius, Geographische Untersuchungen zur Entstehungsgegend des Satapatha-Brähmana, Wiss. Zeitschr. der Karl-Marx-Universität Leipzig 14, 1965: 759-761.
8. M. Witzel, Tracing the Vedic dialects. In: Colette Caillat, Dialects dans les litteratures indo-aryennes. Paris (College de France, Institut de Civilisation Indienne) 1989: 97-264
9. See N. Tsuji, Genzon Yajuruveda Bunken, Tokyo: Toyo Bunko, 1970: 32sqq., 75;
10. M. Witzel, On the origin of the literary device of the 'Frame Story', 1987;
11. M. Witzel, The case of the shattered head. Festschrift für W. Rau, (= StII 13/14), Reinbek, 1987: 363-415.
12. Bronkhorst, Greater Magadha;
13. M. Witzel, Yaäjavalkya as ritualist and philosopher, and his personal language. In: S. Adhami (ed.) Paitimana. Essays in Iranian, Indo-European, and Indian Studies in Honor of Hanns-Peter Schmidt. Volumes I & II. Costa Mesa CA: Mazda Publishers, 2003: 103-143.
14. M. Witzel, Tracing the Vedic dialects, and: The Development of the Vedic Canon and its Schools, n. 317.
15. See K. Hoffmann, Aufsätze zur Indoiranistik, ed. J. Narten, Wiesbaden, 1976: 370sqq., on ChU 6 (with Uddaälaka Aäruni) as 'the youngest level of Vedic prose'; cf. also on the Ksatriya dialect in the somewhat later Middle Upanisads: R. Salomon, Linguistic analysis of the Mundaka Upanisad, WZKS 25, 1981: 91-105.'
16. M. Witzel, Tracing the Vedic dialects, p. 139 sqq.
17. M. Witzel, On the origin ofthe literary device ofthe 'Frame Story'.
18. M. Fushimi, Baudhayana Srautasutra: Development of the ritual text in Ancient India.
19. M. Witzel, The Development of the Vedic Canon; p. 324 sqq.
20. H. Bodewitz, The Jyotistoma ritual: Jaiminiya-Brähmana I, 66-364. Introduction, translation and commentary. Leiden, 1990: transl. p. 191, comm. 314.
21. M. Witzel, On the origin of the literary device of the 'Frame Story'. 80) M. Witzel, Tracing the Vedic dialects, p. 139 sqq.
22. 811 See comments by W. Caland, Das Jaiminiya-Brahmana in Auswahl. Amsterdam 1919: 129, and cf. H.W. Bodewitz, The Jyotistoma ritual, transl. p. 191, comm. p. 314. 821 Cf. H.W. Bodewitz, The Jyotistoma ritual: p. 314.
23. Only according to the Theragatha commentary 1.460, see G.P. Malalasekara, Dictionary of Pali Proper Names, II p. 171; 174, n. 39, the latter according to the (late) Divyavadana 369.
24. M. Witzel, The Development of the Vedic Canon and its Schools, p. 314, 327.
25. M. Witzel, The Development of the Vedic Canon and its Schools, p. 319 sqq; cf. J. Bronkhorst, GreaterMagadha.