recension
recensionA distinct branch or version of a text's tradition, such as the Northern and Southern recensions of the Mahabharata.
Where this term appears
- What are the Vedas? Scriptures
It comes in two main recensions, the "Black" and the "White", which differ in how they mix formula and explanation.
- What is Jyotisha? Scriptures
Lagadha's calendar The oldest surviving Indian astronomical text is a short, terse thing attributed to a sage named Lagadha , in two recensions of about thirty-six and forty-three verses.
- What is the Bhagavad Gita? Scriptures
The figure of seven hundred is the conventional one; a few recensions differ by a verse or two.
- Eighty-five titles and no text: the Saura tantras and how a tradition disappears Lineages
He cites the Shankaravijaya , in the recension ascribed to Anandagiri, on six kinds of Sauras.
- How the Vedas Were Preserved History
The Veda was never a single book but a great tree of shakhas , "branches," each a distinct school with its own exact recension, its own accents, its own ritual uses.
- The Gayatri Mantra Worship
They are a template derived from RV 3.62.10 rather than verses of the Rigveda, and some were interpolated into recensions of the Shatarudriya litany, a movement A.
- The Mahamrityunjaya Mantra Worship
The same verse appears, word for word, in both the White and the Black recensions of the Yajurveda, embedded in a rite called the Traiyambaka-homa , the offering to Rudra the Tryambaka.
- The Twelve Jyotirlingas Temples
…ition as indexed on wisdomlib; chapter divisions vary between printed recensions of the Shiva Purana , so the numbers are a guide, not a fixed coordinate.) On that edition the section runs chapters 14 through 3…