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Śaunaka

The Ṛgvedaprātiśākhya and the Atharvavedaprātiśākhya are ascribed to Śaunaka.

Name

Śaunaka

Date Active

First millennium B.C.

References

Deshpande, Madhav M. (ed.) (1997), Śaunakīyā Caturādhyāyikā. A prātiśākhya of the Śaunakīya Atharvaveda. With the commentaries Caturādhyāyībhāṣya, Bhārgava-bhāskara-vṛtti and Pañcasandhi. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Department of Sanskrit and Indian Studies, Harvard University.

Müller, Max (ed.) (1869), Rig-Veda-Prātiśākhya. Leipzig: F.A. Brockhaus.

Sūryakānta (ed.) (1939), Atharva Prātiśākhya. Lahore: Mehar Chand Lachhman Das.

Whitney, William D. (ed.) (1862), The Atharva-Veda Prātiśākhya or Śaunakīyā Caturadhyāyikā. New Haven: For the American Oriental Society.

Texts

Atharvavedaprātiśākhya

The Atharvavedaprātiśākhya, ascribed to Śaunaka, is the prātiśākhya work of the Atharvaveda.

Ṛgvedaprātiśākhya

The Ṛgvedaprātiśākhya, ascribed to Śaunaka, is a prātiśākhya work of the Ṛgveda.

Linguistic Traditions

Prātiśākhya and śikṣā

Śikṣā (literally ‘instruction’, particularly ‘instruction in reciting’) is the native tradition of phonetics, teaching proper articulation and pronunciation of Vedic texts. Traditionall...