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History of Vaishnavism

Possible sources:

• Gavin Flood, An Introduction to Hinduism, p.103ff: neat diagram, decent overview
• Benjamin Walker, Hindu World, entry on "Vaishnavism": good summary emphasizing unclear post-vedic/non-vedic origins, list of personalities, impressive bibliography (albeit dated).

• SK Aiyangar, Early History of Vaishnavism in South India, Madras 1920
• RG Bhandarkar, Vaishnavism, Saivism and Minor Religious Systems, Strassburg 1913
• SK De, Early History of the Vaishnava Faith and Movement in Bengal from Sanskrit and Bengali Sources, Calcutta 1942
• WS Deming, Ramdas and the Ramdasis, Calcutta 1928
• J Gonda, Early Aspects of Vaishnavism, Utrecht 1957
• AP Karmarkar, Mystic Teachings of the Haridasas of Karnataka, Dharwar 1939
• GN Mallik, The Philosophy of the Vaishnava Religion, 1927
• T Rajagopalachariar, Vaishnava Reformers of India, Madras 1909
• TAG Rao, History of the Sri-Vaishnavas, Madras 1923
• HC Raychaudhuri, Materials for the Study of the Early History of the Vaishnava Sect, Calcutta 1936

• HCIP: material spread over several volumes:

• v.II: DC Sircar, VM Apte, JN Banerjea, p.431-452
• v.III: DC Sircar, JN Banerjea, p.419-430
• v.IV: DC Sircar, JN Banerjea, p.311-314
• v.V: DC Sircar, p.435-441

Vedic Literature

• BR Modak, The Ancillary Literature of the Atharva-Veda. Excellent no-nonsense treatment of texts, good discussion of academic work, valuable cross-index to AV as appendix.
• Albrecht Weber, The History of Indian Literature, (reprint), Honolulu, University Press of the Pacific 2002 ISBN 1-4102-0334-4. (tr. John Mann & Theodor Zachariae)

Religious History

• JN Farquhar, An Outline of the Religious Literature of India, OUP, 1920. Unobtrusive Christian perspective, otherwise informative, good pointers to older academic literature.
• Karl H Potter, (ed) Encyclopedia of Indian Philosophies vols 1-9,11. The bibliography is in Vol 1.
• Gavin Flood, (ed) The Blackwell Companion to Hinduism.

Indian Philosophy

S Radhakrishnan and CA Moore, (ed) A Sourcebook in Indian Philosophy. Good introductory essay.

Ayurveda

• Dominik Wujastyk, The Roots of Ayurveda: rare combination, W is a medical researcher and Sanskrit scholar.
• Kenneth G. Zysk, Asceticism and Healing in Ancient India: apparently, strong connections with Buddhism

Upanishads

This is a mess. Random lists all over the place, little sourcing.

• Narayana upanishad: massive confusion. we have (any of them can be refered to as narayana or mahanarayana!)

• narayana
• mahanarayana
• tripadvibhuti mahanarayana
• narayana atharva sirsha
• yajniki (maha)narayana
• Bloomfield Concordance, Introduction, claims:

• The Mahānārāyaṇa-Upaniṣad of the Atharva-Veda. Edited by Colonel George A. Jacob. Bombay Sanskrit Series, number xxxv. Bombay, 1888. The text is nearly identical with that of the tenth book of the Taittirīya-Āraṇyaka. At archive.org.

• Purported YV version. (Just about unreadable, looks like a PDF-ing of a full text suck-in with zero editing, not even line breaks.) If so, its' the Andhra recension (gayatri is at #35; in the Dravida, it's at #27).
• File at MUM seems to be the AV version.

• Muktika canon
• Stuff on the Adyar Library.

Indian Astronomy

• David Pingree, History of Mathematical Astronomy in India, in Dictionary of Scientific Biography.

In Note 1, he says of "previous attempts to write the history of Indian astronomy":

• "most notable"

• SB Dikshita, Bharatiya Jyotihsastra, Poona 1896 (repr. 1931) in Marathi

• "less informative and reliable"

• Sudhakara Dvivedin, Ganakatarangini, Benares 1892 (repr. 1933)
• George F Thibaut, Astronomie, Astrologie und Mathematik, Strasbourg 1899

• "even less value"

• George R Kaye, Hindu Astronomy, Calcutta 1924
• SN Sen, Astronomy in A Concise History of Science in India, New Delhi 1971
• Roger Billard, L'astronomie indienne, Paris 1971

Vedic metre

Another subpage.

Massive confusion here. Someone renamed Vedic metre to Sanskrit metre on the presumption, mindbogglingly clueless, that they're the same thing and so a "more general" title would be "better". Now that this can of worms has been opened, there's no way to cap it again without writing two full pages, one on Vedic and one on Classical, to demonstrate to these witless busybody morons that there is in fact a difference. Sigh.

Keith's table

Mapping the various YV samhitas, on p.xlvii of his introduction.