@akshai1993 @RangaTheDude trayividyA> tevijja should be correctly understood both in the pALi & early Skt contexts as the 3 types of mantra-s: R^ik-s, sAman-s, yajuSh-es. The RV saMhitA is only 1st type; the SV saMhitA is 2nd; SV brAhmaNa-s have all 3 types; e.g., pa~nchaviMsha-brAhmaNa opens with the
@akshai1993 @RangaTheDude yajuSh-es of the taNDin-s. The YV saMhitA-s have both R^ik-s& yajuSh-es. The YV-s have parishiShTha-s with RV style R^ik collections for hautra roles. AV is a collection of RV-style R^ik-s; yajuSh-es & a special class of incantation most commonly of the bheShaja type. These types
@akshai1993 @RangaTheDude have clear Iranic cognates -- yasna haptangaiti is Iranic yajuSh. Thus, the 3 types of mantra-s -- the trayi -- likely had a deep presence in the Aryan tradition & was only partially aligned to the saMhitA collections. The AV is internally mentioned several times in the yajuSh as
@akshai1993 @RangaTheDude atharvA~Ngirasa. Thus, the collection predates the tathAgata, even if you follow a white indological chronology. The tathAgata, as is typical of him, redefined what the trayi meant; hence, we cannot take his mention of the term as defining some kind of vaidika reality. As you
@akshai1993 @RangaTheDude know he also clashes with a skull-tapping AV v1, va~NgIsha.
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