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- Title
The Final Hymn of the Rigveda: Some Thoughts.
- Authors
KATZ, JOSHUA T.
- Abstract
The final hymn of the Rigveda, 10 .191, the last three stanzas of which are dedicated to sajñānam 'unity', plays in a remarkable way with the preposition/prefix sam(-) 'with; together' and the phonetic sequence ma n . Some of the words with ma n go back to Proto-Indo-European *men 'think' (mánas- 'mind, intellect, thought', mántra- 'utterance, spell', and mantraye 'I utter an utterance, recite a spell'); others are forms of the adjective samāná- 'common, the same' . This brief communication shows that the display of phonetic fireworks has analogs in our earliest hymns in Avestan and Greek, in which both reflexes of *men and etymologically unconnected words that have the same pattern of sounds are frequently found in the most "privileged positions": the beginning and/or end of a section, poem, or entire poetic collection .
- Subjects
VEDAS. Rgveda; HYMNS; PHONETICS; AVESTAN language; POETRY (Literary form)
- Publication
Journal of the American Oriental Society, 2024, Vol 144, Issue 2, p417
- ISSN
0003-0279
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.7817/jaos.144.2.2024.bc002