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Nagaraj Paturi

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Nov 20, 2022, 10:56:48 PM11/20/22
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Prof. R N Iyengar posted on another list as follows:

Katha Aranyaka  is published in the Harvard oriental series; very expensive to buy. Is there a within India source for the text either in manuscript form or as printed book?

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RN Iyengar

Nabanarayan Bandyopadhyay

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Nov 22, 2022, 12:53:26 AM11/22/22
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On Mon, 21 Nov 2022 at 9:27, Nagaraj Paturi<nagara...@gmail.com> wrote: Prof. R N Iyengar posted on another list as follows:
Katha Aranyaka  is published in the Harvard oriental series; very expensive to buy. Is there a within India source for the text either in manuscript form or as printed book?
ThanksRN Iyengar

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Nagaraj Paturi

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Nov 22, 2022, 12:58:53 AM11/22/22
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Dear Prof Nabanarayan Bandyopadhyay-ji,

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Ajit Gargeshwari

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Nov 22, 2022, 2:37:10 AM11/22/22
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Dear Prof. Paturi,

One can buy on amazon.in its priced at Rs 3,299. As you know its a German translation and the reader should know German well. Books wagon the seller who sells on Amazon uses blue dart courier services and one will get the book.

I can share with you in private with you In private if you need Das Katha Arnayaka Michael Witzel. Kathmandu 1974

For procuring Manuscripts consulted in the preparation Harvard oriental series edition one may directly correspond with Prof. Witzel

S. Kalyanaraman

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Nov 22, 2022, 3:27:37 AM11/22/22
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S. Kalyanaraman

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Nagaraj Paturi

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Nov 22, 2022, 3:31:42 AM11/22/22
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Thanks, Dr Kalyanaraman ji. Excellent. 

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Nagaraj Paturi

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Nov 22, 2022, 3:33:06 AM11/22/22
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Thanks, Sri Ajit ji. 

Prof. R N Iyengar might want to contact you individually. 

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Balasubramanian Ramakrishnan

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Nov 22, 2022, 9:54:21 AM11/22/22
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Dear Prof. Iyengar,

I have this book. A good half of the book is a translation of the thesis of Prof. Witzel and the German original. Note that although it's called a critical edition, it's based on a single manuscript. There are some good color photographs of the bark manuscript. Only the pravargya and its brAhmaNa are to be found in this book. Although the aruNa-prashna and svAdhyAyabrAhmaNa of the taittiriya are originally from the kaTha-shAkhA, these cannot be found in this manuscript. Whether this is one of the kaTha-shAkhA-s which had only these two in its ArNyakam or whether these fragments are the only ones available from a bigger AraNyakam is only a matter of speculation. BTW, at $50, this is one of the cheaper books to be found in the HOS.

The manuscript upon which this is based is in some German library.

Ramakrishnan

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R. N. iyengar

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Nov 22, 2022, 10:48:25 AM11/22/22
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Thanks to Sri Ramakrishnan, Sri Kalyana Raman and others for their kindness.
Within a day of posting in the Samskrtam group I got access to the HOS book. I was having the 
text from Animesha Nagar's blog spot, but not what KR has made available.
 My specific interest was to see whether the  "aruNa-prashna and svAdhyAyabrAhmaNa of the Taittiriya "
which contain considerable astronomical information are available in the published Katha AraNyaka in any form. 
 I was also wondering if the TAi. and Katha schools were close to each other, why the 
Graheshta BrahmaNa (Susan Rosenfield's Harvard Univ. Thesis) and/or the Grahes.t.i Br. of the Katha school is not reflected in the 
Tai. (also MaitrayaNiya) BrahmaNa/AraNyaka  texts. Let us hope more Vedic manuscripts get retrieved and published.

RNI

Vishal Agarwal

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Dec 12, 2022, 12:27:29 AM12/12/22
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The Veda in Kashmir in 2 vols by HOS has CDs containing scan of a manuscript of 45 chapters of the Katha Brahmana. I have not had a chance to read them (and I do not read the Sharad script anyway) but according to the author M Witzel, these 45 chapters pertain to Grhya ceremonies completely. Even the surviving portions of the Katha Brahmana as edited by Suryakanta and others are very rich in Grhya Karma, so this makes sense. It appears that a significant portion of Kathaka Shatadhyayana Brahmana actually dealt with Grhya material. Significantly, the Charayaniya Mantrarshadhyaya states that all the Brahmana portions of the Katha Charayaniya Shakha were ascribed to Sumantu-Kashyapa. These Rishis are most commonly associated with the AV tradition, which as we all know, is particularly detailed in Grhya ceremonies.

Elsewhere, it has been noted that the Kathakam portion of Taittiriya Shakha is found appended to some Kapishthala manuscripts.

If you search the archives of this list, you will find some references that I collected on possible survival of Kapishthala Brahmana and Aranyaka manuscripts as late as 1970s. Not sure if they still exist. In this regard, there are numerous manuscripts of 'Katha Samhita' in Melukote which have not been examined (one of these is 200 folios or so), and also 3 of Kapishthala Samhita at Anand Ashrama in Pune that await detailed study as well. None of these were used for the fragmentarily published Katha Kapishthala Samhita. It is in the valley of Tapi river that one can do field searches to find any survivals.

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Vishal
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