A Vedic Word Concordance

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A Vedic Word Concordance (Sanskrit: Vaidika-Padānukrama-Koṣa ) is a multi-volume concordance of the corpus of Vedic Sanskrit texts. It has been under preparation from 1930 and was published in 1935-1965 under the guidance of Viśvabandhu Śāstrī (d. 1973), with an introduction in Sanskrit and English. It aims to be "a universal vocabulary register" of "Vedic works, with complete textual reference and critical commentary bearing on phonology, accent, etymo-morphology, grammar, metre, text-criticism, and Ur-Aryan philology". The work covers 123,000 word-bases and 5,000,000 word forms found in about 400 Vedic (Samhitas, Brahmanas, Aranyakas) and sub-Vedic (Upanishads, Vedanga) texts.

The concordance, which has about 11,000 page, is published in 16 parts.

Volume I: Samhitas (6 parts)
Volume II: Brahmanas and Aranyakas (2 parts)
Volume III: Upanishads (2 parts)
Volume IV: Vedangas (4 parts)
Index (2 parts)

A revised edition, was published in 1973-1976.

Acharya Vishva Bandhu Shastri continued the work of Swamis Vishveshvaranand and Nityanand who had published word indices to the four Vedic Samhitas in 1908-1910, leading the Vishveshvaranand Institute from 1924 until his death in 1973. After the partition of India, the institute moved to its present premises at Sadhu Ashram, Hoshiarpur, Punjab (Republic of India). Since 1965, the institute has been incorporated in the Panjab University, Chandigarh as the "Vishveshvaranand Institute of Sanskrit and Indological Studies" (VISIS) Based on the Vedic Word Concordance, the institute currently compiles a Dictionary of Vedic Interpretation, of which the first volume, running up to the lemma Agni, has been completed.

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  • Vishva Bandhu, Bhim Dev, S. Bhaskaran Nair (eds.), Vaidika-Padānukrama-Koṣa: A Vedic Word-Concordance, Vishveshvaranand Vedic Research Institute, Hoshiarpur, 1963-1965.

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