Language of the Taittiriya Brahmana (An Old and Rare Book)

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The present study represents a modest attempt at analysing the Language of the Taittirtya Brahmaņa, the oldest Brähmanical text. The language of this ancient Br. is full of great interests for the linguists and the Sanskrit scholars. It presents the earliest phase of the prose literature of Sanskrit.

I am highly grateful to late Prof. Kundan Lal Sharma, formerly Head of Sans. Deptt., S. D. College, Muzaffar Nagar. He was my supervisor and guide. He not only inspired me to take up this study for my Ph. D., but also read the dissertation thoroughly with keen interest and gave valuable suggestions.

I place on record my grateful thanks to Dr. H. S. Anantha-narayana (Prof. & Head, Linguistics Deptt., Osmania University, Hyderabad) and Dr. Satya Vrata (Prof. & Head, Sanskrit Deptt., Delhi University, Delhi, my respected teacher); for their kind perusal of the summary of my thesis. Dr. Ananthanarayana was kind enough to send some of the reprints of his scholarly articles.

I am also thankful to my friends Dr. Krishna Kumar Goswami (Reader, Central Institute of Hindi, Delhi), and Dr. Madan Gopal (Eng. Deptt, S. D. College, Muzaffar Nagar) who helped me in revising some chapters of the dissertation and Prof. J. P. Savita (Eng. Deptt., S. D. College, Muzaffar Nagar) who generously gave me some rare books from his personal library. I thankfully remember the co-operation and prompt help provided by the library staff of S. D. College, Muzaffar Nagar; Archaeologi-cal library, Delhi, Delhi University library and V. V. R. 1., Hoshiar-pur (Punjab).

With a profound sense of gratitude I wish to record the endeavour of Dr. M.C. Bhartiya (Head, Deptt. of Sans., M. M. Η College, Ghaziabad) who undertook my work for publication by M/s Indo Vision Pvt. Ltd. Ghaziabad. The Tathagata Printing Press, Ghaziabad deserves all praise in carrying through this work satisfactorily in spite of unprecedented difficulties. I am grateful to all those whose works I have consulted and those who have directly or indirectly helped me in collection or understanding of the relevant material.

Lastly, it will also be proper to place on record the pains taken by my wife Smt. Pushpa Devi, who besides performing all the daily chores of a household; arranged and prepared numerous lists of words of the Brahmana.