Book Title: Makaranda Madhukar Anand Mahendale Festshrift
Author(s): M A Dhaky, Jitendra B Shah
Publisher: Shardaben Chimanbhai Educational Research Centre

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________________ Vedisms in Daivarāta's Chandodarśana G. U. Thite Daivarāta, a modern rsi, to whom 448 mantras are claimed to have been revealed, was born on 4th Jan. 1892. He belonged to Gokarna. A collection of hymns revealed to him called "Chandodarśana” is published by Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, Mumbai, 1968. This text consists of 8 chapters called Anuvākas. There are in all 50 hymns composed in Vedic metres, namely Gāyatrī, Anustubh, Tristubh, and Jagatī. The text consists of Samhitā-pātha as well as Pada-patha, both with the accentuation marks. The text is followed by the 'Chandodarśanasarvānukramanikāsūtram' which is an index to the text. There is also a commentary in Sanskrit by Ganapati Muni. The commentator who happened to be Daivarāta's teacher has written a preface to his commentary in which he justifies the possibility of there being new rsis. For, he says that even in the Rgveda there are references to new and ancient rsis. The commentator-teacher of Daivarāta claims that Daivarāta was a great Yogi and seer and that he even without being properly trained in Sanskrit or Veda saw these Vedic Mantras in 1917 during the 15 days of the month of Kārttika. Daivarāta in his transcendental meditation recited these mantras and the teacher wrote them down. The teacher had to omit many a halfverse or quarter-verse because they were not sufficiently audible. In this paper it is intended to study the Vedisms in these Mantras. In the Rgveda when an independent Svarita immediately precedes an Udātta, the phenomenon of Kampa occurs. In that case the independent Svarita is accompanied by the sign of the numeral 1 if the vowel is short and 3 if the vowel is long. The figures are marked with both Svarita and Anudātta. In the Chandodarśana, there are several occasions of both these types of Kampa. Thus for example in I. 4. 2 agnirayam viśvavijjātavedāh svalr visvānyeva bhūtāni jātāni Veda. For similar Kampas see I. 4. 7, I. 5. 9, 1. 5.

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