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Sāmavedaprātiśākhya

Text Group

• Prātiśākhya
  A group of texts

Text Type

• Treatise
  A type of text

References

• Suryakantashastri (ed.) (1933 [I cannot find the publication year; this is the year of the preface, on p. viii]), Ṛktantram. A prātiśākhya of the Sāmaveda. Critically edited with an introduction, appendices, exhaustive notes, a commentary called Ṛktantravivṛti and Sāmavedasarvānukramaṇī. Lahore: Mehar Chand Lachhman Das.
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Authors

• Audavraji
  The Sāmavedaprātiśākhya (a.k.a. Ṛktantra) is ascribed to Śākaṭāyana or Audavraji.
• Śākaṭāyana
  The Sāmavedaprātiśākhya (a.k.a. Ṛktantra) is ascribed to Śākaṭāyana or Audavraji.

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...