... Drafts of ‘The Origins of Aryan Speech’ Vedic and Philological Studies Aryan Origins Introductory Among all the many promising beginnings of which the nineteenth century was the witness, none perhaps was hailed with greater eagerness by the world of culture and science than the triumphant debut of Comparative Philology. None perhaps has been... and three ancient tongues, two dead & one living, which have evidently come at least into contact with it, the Latin, Greek & Tamil. I have called my work, for convenience’ sake, the Origins of Aryan Speech; but I would have it clearly understood that by using this familiar epithet I do not for a moment wish to imply any opinion as to the relationship of the four languages included in my survey, or... base my conclusions on the evidence of the Sanscrit language helped out by those parts of the Greek, Latin & Tamil tongues which are cognate to the word-families of Sanscrit, and by the origins of Aryan speech, I mean, properly, the origin of human speech as Page 558 used & developed by those who fashioned these word-families and their stocks & offshoots. The significance of the word Aryan ...
... the first containing the drafts of The Origins of Aryan Speech , the second containing other examples written by Sri Aurobindo in transliteration have been editorially italicised and spelled with diacritics according to the system of transliteration used in works he prepared for publication. Section One: Drafts of The Origins of Aryan Speech Sri Aurobindo wrote in the Record of Yoga , in... working on a writing entitled “Aryan Origins”. In the entry of 15 November 1913 he listed “Origins of Aryan Speech” as one of several works he intended to complete. (See Record of Yoga , volume 10 of THE COMPLETEWORKS, pages 275 and 314.) He also mentioned a work entitled “Origins of Aryan Speech” in a letter published in the Hindu of Madras on 27 August 1914. In a footnote to a chapter of The... his intention of presenting the results of his philological research “in a separate work on ‘The Origins of Aryan Speech’.” (See The Secret of the Veda , volume 15 of THE COMPLETE WORKS, pages 596 and 51.) However, he never completed or published this work. The Origins of Aryan Speech . Circa 1912 – 14. Sri Aurobindo began this draft on blank pages at the end of a notebook containing material ...
... Drafts of ‘The Origins of Aryan Speech’ Vedic and Philological Studies The Origins of Aryan Speech In that pregnant period of European knowledge when physical Science, turned suddenly towards its full strength, was preparing to open for itself the new views, new paths and new instruments of discovery which have led to the astonishing results of... governing the birth & development of Aryan speech.My inquiry does not carry me farther. I do not pretend as yet to inquire into the laws of speech itself, but only to establish from data, some facts of Aryan speech which may eventually help in solving the wider problem. In another respect, also, the philologists seem to me to have misunderstood the conditions of their inquiry. They have been not rigid enough... & Aryan languages. Whether there be a separate Dravidian stock or no, it is to me a certainty that Tamil owes not only many of its most common terms, but whole families of words to the original Aryan speech. Its evidences cannot be neglected in such an inquiry as I have undertaken, for they are of the greatest importance. Indeed the theory worked out by me, took its rise originally not from any analysis ...
... re-examination of a large part of the field of Comparative Philology and a reconstruction on a new basis which he hoped would bring us nearer to a true science of language. He called it The Origins of Aryan Speech. The draft of only one chapter was found among his manuscripts, along with a substantial number of separate linguistic notes. The draft has been appended to his book. The Secret of the Veda... equally old Aryan forms, corrupted and preserved by the early deliquescence of the Tamilic dialect? 19. Op. cit., pp. 559-60. What follows is from the extant first chapter of The Origins of Aryan Speech. Page 27 Some of them are common to the modern Aryan vernaculars, but unknown to Sanskrit, and it has even been thence concluded by some that the Aryan vernaculars were originally... antiquity, from a shared linguistic ancestor. The idea of a parallel development would be put out of court if it was impossible for the cerebrals to have emerged by the internal evolution of an "Aryan" speech like Sanskrit in primitive times. A number of scholars do entertain the idea. But what appears to be the wisest word here is Sten Page 28 Konow's, though it was set forth within ...
... by the same publisher (renamed Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education) in 1964. Both these editions included as an appendix an essay from Sri Aurobindo's manuscripts, "The Origins of Aryan Speech". In 1971, most of the same material was published as The Secret of the Veda , volume 10 of the Sri Aurobindo Birth Centenary Library. In that edition, "The Doctrine of the Mystics"... on Page 603 and translations of the Veda published by Sri Aurobindo in the Arya . Writings reproduced from manuscripts in previous editions —"The Origins of Aryan Speech" and certain translations —have been placed in a new volume, Vedic Studies with Writings on Philology . "The Doctrine of the Mystics" has been restored to the text of Hymns of the Atris . ...
... vulgar and to conceal the ideas contained in their formulae from a profane intelligence. I believe that this is the true explanation; it can be established, I think, by a study of the development of Aryan speech that language did pass through a stage peculiarly favourable to this cryptic and psychological use of words which in their popular handling have a plain, precise and physical significance. I... had fled from its coverings. Page 57 × I propose to deal with them in a separate work on "The Origins of Aryan Speech". [ See Vedic Studies with Writings on Philology, volume 14 of THE COMPLETE WORKS OF SRI AUROBINDO.] ...
... "Hymns of the Atris" (August 1915 to December 1917), "Other Hymns" (published intermittently between August 1915 and January 1920). An incomplete essay from manuscripts, "The Origins of Aryan Speech", is added as an appendix. In SABCL On the Veda is published under the title The Secret of the Veda, Volume 10, with the following additions and alterations: in Part Three, translations... Volume 10 The Secret of the Veda : The Secret of the Veda; Selected Hymns; Hymns of the Atris ; Other Hymns; Interpretation of the Veda ; The Origins of Aryan Speech. Volume 11 Hymns to the Mystic Fire : Foreword; The Doctrine of the Mystics; Translations (Hymns to Agni from the Rig-veda translated in their esoteric sense); ...
... formula" along with its sense, and it was suggested to him that those were "actual words used in this sense in pre-Vedic Sanskrit." That is how Sri Aurobindo came to write 77i<? Origins of Aryan Speech. "He knows Latin, he knows Greek!" had exclaimed the French magistrate, and he could have added, "He knows Sanskrit!" That Sri Aurobindo knew perfectly both English and French was common knowledge... avoid lures which may draw him away "from the great discoveries awaiting mankind on his badly explored tract of knowledge." Through Nirukta, the use of etymology, through The Origins of Aryan Speech, and his profuse writings on the Veda and the Upanishads, Sri Aurobindo has provided us with the clue and the methodology of exploring and arriving at the real Page 371 connections ...
... senses belong to the words—but we must always inquire how they came to bear them. As to vághat, we have little clue or evidence, but on the system I have developed in another work (the Origins of Aryan Speech), it may be safely concluded that the lost roots vagh & Page 151 vágh, must have conveyed the sense of motion evident in the Latin vagus & vagari, wandering & to wander & the sense of ...
... a passage which when taken in the plain and ordinary sense of the epithets sheds a great light on the nature of Mahi. Sunrita means really true and is opposed to anrita, false—for in the early Aryan speech su and sû would equally signify, well, good, very; and the euphonic n is of a very ancient type of sandhi—originally, it was probably no more than a strong anuswar—traces of which can still be found ...
... usual symbolic sense, धेनवः in its ordinary sense of the seven rivers with the usual double entendre of rivers & cows. समीच is an adjective formed from सम on the system explained in my Origins of Aryan Speech, Page 619 like घृताच, पिशाच, पराच, वरुच, दधीच, प्रतीच from घृत, पिश्, पर, वर, दध्, प्रति. The meaning is easy to fix; we have समीचः in the sense of the level expanse of ocean, समीचक ...
... Harappan language was Proto-Dravidian, is there any reason to talk of this presence as having been "quickly absorbed" into that milieu? The milieu itself might have been sufficiently in tune with Indo-Aryan speech. As for cultural absorption, can we say that the presence of so fundamental, so typical a trait of Indo-Aryanism should not be regarded as a natural expression of the Harappa Culture? H.D ...
... the power of poetry has reached its acme in Rabindranath. But what about the mantric power in his creation? In spite of having Rabindranath, it may well be asked to what extent we get the true Aryan speech in our varied and rich creation. Page 112 ...
... POETRY, LITERATURE AND ART. Volume 10 — The Secret of the Veda: The Secret of the Veda; Selected Hymns; Hymns of the Atris; Other Hymns; Interpretation of the Veda; The Origins of Aryan Speech. Volume 11 — Hymns to the Mystic Fire: FOREWORD: The Doctrine of the Mystics; Translations (Hymns to Agni from the Rig-Veda translated in their esoteric sense); Supplement. ...
... know when it happened and how it happened. 1 Nirukta, Vedic etymology, composed by Yaska. Let us note at once that Sri Aurobindo did not write a 'new Nirukta' but his Origins of Aryan Speech" shows to where he was leading. Page 337 "July 13 th . Ananda Mimansa 1 begun last night; the first adhyaya 2 completed this morning. "July 14 th . Yesterday by a sudden ...
... fact that "most members of your group are unaware of that most illuminating book, The Secret of the Veda by Sri Aurobindo, which contains a Supplement of extreme originality, "The Origins of Aryan Speech'." 15 Similarly, C.P. Ramaswami Aiyar, Vice Chancellor of Annamalai University in his letter dated 22 October 1964 acknowledges the pioneering research of Sethna in the field of Harappan ...
... Nirukta, 108 Nordics, 20 Norse Sagas, 18 North-West Frontier, 63 Northerners, 1 Oldenberg, 110 Old High German, 90 Origins of Aryan Speech, The, 26fn. Orphic and Eleusinian Mysteries, 107 Ouranos, 89 ovis vignei, 59 Oxford History of India, The, 4fn. Oxus, 77 Painted Grey Ware (PGW), 5 ...
... sri, not yet káma. Sahitya — Rig-Veda—reading only— Vedanta—Isha Upanishad Commentary (The Life Divine), Brihad Aranyaka, translation. Philology—Dictionary. Vowel Roots, Origins of Aryan Speech. Poetry—Ilion, Eric, Idylls of Earth & Heaven. Bhasha—Sanscrit, French, Bengali. Page 314 Rupadrishti has advanced a stage in the stability with comparative clearness of certain ...
... of comparative Philology and a reconstruction on a new basis which I have some hope will bring us nearer to a true science of Language. This I propose to develop in another work, the "Origins of Aryan Speech". I hope also to lead up to a recovery of the sense of the ancient spiritual conceptions of which old symbol and myth give us the indications and which I believe to have been at one time a common ...
... its Children. In Veda— 1) The Secret of the Veda. 2) The Vedic Path of Truth. 3) The Gods of the Veda. 4) The Psychology of the Veda. 5) Vedic Terminology 6) The Origins of Aryan Speech. 7) The Rigveda (translated) 8) Vedic Legends. 9) The Aryan Religions. In Poetry. 1) The Trilogy 2) Ilion 3) The Descent of Ahana & other Poems. This is the programme ...
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