![]() ![]() Symbolism in the Gathas, views which have been controverted, especially by Helmut Humbach. ![]() Schmidt has elaborated in several articles pertaining to bovine I shall here apply this theoretical development to prove an independent hypothesis, or cluster of hypotheses, which Prof. Innovative observations which Professor Schmidt made concerning Gathic compositional techniques (discussed in my next paragraph) which I subsequently expanded and systematized. My present study has its ultimate methodological underpinnings in some Studies of the Gathas of Zarathushtra, in which he shows a rare combination of meticulous textual investigation, judicious argumentation, and original, often bold, conclusions. Among his manyĪccomplishments as an Tndo-Iranist are his important more It is my genuine pleasure to dedicate this article to myĭear colleague Hanns-Peter Schmidt. It is my genuine pleasure to dedicate this article to myĭear colleague Hanns-Peter Schmidt. The most important discussions of the SCRIM principle are given in In the SCRIM charts in this article, the first (leftmost) columns of Gathic words represent words from poems whose composition is theorized as earlier than that of poems from which are given the related words in the second columns. Thus 33.2c means '(the Gathic poem) Yasna 33, second stanza, third line 33.2c' refers to the first part of that line, and 33.2c" to the second part of that same line. The Yasna number followed by period and one-or two-digit numbers indicate the stanzas of that poem, and the letters sa to e the lines in that stanza, and single or double quotation mark after those letters specify whether the citation is respectively from the first part or the second part of a line with regard to the obligatory metrically-based breakage (caesura) in each line. Thus for example, the Gathic poem Yasna (= Y) 32 need not at all have been composed before (Yasna) 46, and indeed my SCRIM charting shows that the reverse is true. The numbers have nothing tio do with the original order of composition. The seventeen Gathic poems are thereby numbered as This numbering is based chiefly on a pentadic grouping of the seventeen poems according to metrical and stanzaic criteria. heterogeneous compositions (most more recent than the Gathas and not authored by Zarathushtra) which were to be recited in the course of the Yasna liturgy. ![]() It was under the stimulus of Schmidt 19, with their attention to various lexical-semantic linkages between stanzas of Gathic poems, that I produced an account of the systematically concentric ring composition which governs each of the completed Gathic poems, 1 The two-digit numbering of the seventeen Gathic poems refers to to the traditional numerations of the seventeen Gathic poems, whereby eachGathic poem has a Yasna-number in accord wth placement in the post-Gathic sequence of Yasna-s, i.e. " Schmidt's overview will be borne out by the independent analysis to be given in the course of the present article. I'll begin with Schmidt's (1985: 53) insightful summary of 33.2 (seq.): " If man treats his fellow-men according to their allegiance to truth or deceit, if he follows the rules of hospitality and if he overcomes the strife existing in society…, he then pleases God and reaps the benefits of the restoration of the original paradisical life, a state in which man totally communes with God and His entities. more I devote this article, which aims systematically to prove that Y(asna) 33.2c 1 contains an oral acrostic, to the commemoration of our dear late colleague Hanns-Peter Schmidt, a great Indo-Iranist whose close studies of the Gathas were both innovative and highly reliable. I devote this article, which aims systematically to prove that Y(asna) 33.2c 1 contains an oral a. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |