Parpola, Jaimini-Kalpa with Bhavatrata-Vrtti - 1. Stoma-Kalpa, 2. Prakrta-Kalpa, 3. Samjna-Kalpa

This book publishes primary sources on ancient South Asia. The Jaimini-Kalpa (JK) is a previouly unpublished Sama-Vedic text composed in Sanskrit around the sixth century BCE. It was discovered by Asko Parpola in 1966 in a unique miscatalogued manuscript in the Tanjore Maharaja Serfoji's Sarasvati Mahal Library in Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu, South India. A rather exhaustive decades-long hunt for manuscripts of Jaiminiya texts in South India and elsewhere did not produce any further manuscripts...