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Atharvavedaprātiśākhya

The Atharvavedaprātiśākhya, ascribed to Śaunaka, is the prātiśākhya work of the Atharvaveda.

Approximate Date of Creation

First millennium B.C.

Author

Śaunaka

Text Group

A group of texts

Text Type

References

Deshpande, Madhav M. (ed.) (1997), Śaunakīyā Caturādhyāyikā. A prātiśākhya of the Śaunakīya Atharvaveda. With the commentaries Caturādhyāyībhāṣya, Bhārgava-bhāskara-vṛtti and Pañcasandhi. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Department of Sanskrit and Indian Studies, Harvard University.

Sūryakānta (ed.) (1939), Atharva Prātiśākhya. Lahore: Mehar Chand Lachhman Das.

Whitney, William D. (ed.) (1862), The Atharva-Veda Prātiśākhya or Śaunakīyā Caturadhyāyikā. New Haven: For the American Oriental Society.

Authors

The Ṛgvedaprātiśākhya and the Atharvavedaprātiśākhya are ascribed to Śaunaka.

Linguistic Traditions

Prātiśākhya and śikṣā

Śikṣā (literally ‘instruction’, particularly ‘instruction in reciting’) is the native tradition of phonetics, teaching proper articulation and pronunciation of Vedic texts. Traditionall...