HOS, VOL. 50: Rig Veda, a metrically restored text
This link allows to access and download the SAMHITA version of the RV
edition made by B. van Nooten and G.Holland. It is based on the RV edition
of Th. Aufrecht (2nd ed., Bonn, 1877; frequently reprinted, but now out
of print.)
The restored metrical version, printed as HOS Vol. 50, will not be
made available here. It can be purchased from Harvard
University Press, for $ 50, including a diskette with the metrically
restored version AND the Aufrecht text.
The text.
The ten files corresponding to the ten books of the Rig Veda in
this version have names ending in -A: RV01A, RV02A, etc.
The codification of the diacritics follows the International Code
page that was established during the International Sanskrit Conference
of Vienna in 1989 with one exception: the "anunaasika m" for which there
is no apparent place was assigned to ASCII no. 222. The codepage was distributed
through the INDOLOGY network and is reprinted at the end of this Note.
The MAC version of the van Nooten/Holland RV
is available at vedavid.org
I thank J. R.Gardner
for making this possible (see his web site vedavid,
under: ftp site ).
Compression - Decompression.
The text files have been compressed by means of the well-known program
"PKZIP.EXE". They are illegible in this format. To restore the text to
a readable form, the companion program "PKUNZIP.EXE" must be used. The
"decompression" must be carried out on a diskette or hard drive that will
allow the file to expand by 30 or 40 per cent. (The whole RV will take
about one 1.4 MB diskette).
The procedure is as follows: (a) Copy the file(s) and the program
PKUNZIP.EXE to an empty diskette or a hard drive and (b) type: "PKUNZIP
filename". "filename" is the file you want to convert, e.g. RV01A.zip.
Once the text has been decompressed it will appear as a plain ASCII
text. Successive lines are separated by a sequence of the invisible ASCII
symbols: 13 14. Then save the converted text under a name of your choice
on your hard drive or on another diskette.
Converting the diacritics.
Many of us are working with configurations of Sanskrit diacritics
on the screen that are different from those presented in the International
Code Page. You may change them by programs such as change.exe,
by simple "search and replace" procedures, or by MACROs in your text processing
programs such as MSWORD, WORD PERFECT, etc.
International Codepage for Sanskrit diacritics , see: readme.doc,
use:
change.exe (in DOS), otherwise: search/replace etc.
ASCII number
159 r underbar
166 l tilde
167 m overdot
168 a macron breve
169 i macron breve
170 u macron breve
173 n underbar
181 a macron acute
182 a macron grave
183 i macron acute
184 i macron grave
189 u macron acute
190 u macron grave
191 r underdot acute
198 r underdot acute
199 r underdot grave
207 r underdot macron acute
208 a tilde
209 i tilde
210 u tilde
211 e tilde
212 o tilde
213 e breve
214 o breve
215 l underbar
222 m topped by bindu]
224 a macron
226 A macron
227 i macron
228 I macron
229 u macron
230 U macron
231 r underdot
232 R underdot
233 r underdot macron
234 R underdot macron
235 l underdot
236 L underdot
237 l underdot macron
238 L underdot macron
239 n overdot
240 N overdot
241 t underdot
242 T underdot
243 d underdot
244 D underdot
245 n underdot
246 N underdot
247 s acute
248 S acute
249 s underdot
250 S underdot
252 m underdot
253 M underdot
254 h underdot
255 H underdot
BvN.
(C) The Aufrecht/van Nooten/Holland (Samhita) version of the Rigveda
is made available here on the condition that it is used for non-commercial
purposes only. You may make a copy for your own research. For any further
use please write to HARVARD ORIENTAL
SERIES for permission.
Download (ftp) the SAMHITA version in DOS / PKzip-compressed in 10
files: RV01A.zip, etc., uncompress by unzip:
RV 1
RV 2
RV 3
RV 4
RV 5
RV
6
RV 7
RV 8
RV 9
RV
10
available since late August 1996