6.0214 Rs: Nietzche; Sutras (2/75)

Elaine Brennan & Allen Renear (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Wed, 26 Aug 1992 18:17:39 EDT

Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 6, No. 0214. Wednesday, 26 Aug 1992.


(1) Date: Mon, 24 Aug 92 20:21 CDT (13 lines)
From: Michael Ossar <MLO@KSUVM>
Subject: help with a quote from Nietzsche

(2) Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 08:28:04 -0500 (62 lines)
From: James Marchand <marchand@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Subject: grhya-sutras

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Date: Mon, 24 Aug 92 20:21 CDT
From: Michael Ossar <MLO@KSUVM>
Subject: help with a quote from Nietzsche

I believe the quote from Nietzsche that Bobb Menk asked about is from the
_Genealogy of Morals_, from part 8 of the second section, "`Schuld',
`schlechtes Gewissen', und Verwandtes." In the original it reads: "der
Mensch bezeichnete sich als das Wesen, welches Werte misst, wertet und misst
als das `abschaetzende Tier an sich'." There's a translation of the whole
book by Walter Kaufmann, published by Vintage.

Michael Ossar
Kansas State University
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Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 08:28:04 -0500
From: James Marchand <marchand@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Subject: grhya-sutras

I am sure you will get many answers on this one. The grhya-sutras are
instructions on Vedic conduct of life, particularly on the rituals "at the
hearth". Grhya "domestic" su:tra "thread". Much as in Old Icelandic tha/ttr
"thread, then chapter in a book", su:tra came to mean chapter in Sanskrit.
Your first port of call ought to be a general bibliography such as J. Michael
Mahar, India. A Critical Bibliography (Tucson: University of Arizona Press,
1964). He will lead you to series such as The Sacred Books of the East, the
Harvard Oriental Series and the London Oriental Series, where many of the
texts are found in translation. Murray B. Emenau has _A Union List of
Printed Indic Texts and Translations in American Libraries_ (New Haven:
American Oriental Society, 1935), which will help you in finding where items
are. The standard Vedic bibliography is Louis Renou, Bibliographie Vedique
(Paris: Maisonneuve, 1931), continued by Ramchandra N. Dundekar, Vedic
Bibliography (Bombay: Karnatak Publishing House {write for their catalogue},
1946). To shorten this, Arthur A. Macdonell and A. B. Keith, the two
authorities on the subject, teamed up to write _Vedic Index of Names and
Subjects_ 2 vols. (London: J. Murray, 1912), which is particularly good for
things like the grhya-sutras (brahmanas). This could continue, since it is a
huge subject. I should point out in passing that many of the classical texts
have been reprinted in India for a fraction of the cost. A simple f t grhya#
into our library at the University of Illinois yielded the following items of
interest to your subject:

1. Sen, Chitrabhanu, A dictionary of the Vedic rituals : based on
the Srauta and Grhya sutras / 1st ed. 1978, c1976. 172 p.,
:6: leaves of plates ocm03-877694
2. Asvalayanagrhyasutra. Asvalayanagrhyasutram :
Narayanakrtavrtti-Grhyaparisista-Bhattakumarila-k
arikasahitam / Nutaneyamankanavrttih. 1978. 223, 17, 14,
2 p. ocm06-148158
3. Asvalayanagrhyasutra. English & Sanskrit. Asvalayana
grhyasutram, with Sanskrit commentary of Narayana / 1st
ed. 1976. xvi, 225 p. ocm03-482592
4. Baudhayana. The Bodhayana grhyasutra / 1982. xviii, 503 p.
ocm11-042760
5. Narayanabhatta Arade, Grhyagnisagarah / 1986. 18,
231 p. ocm19-669604
6. Sankhayanagrhyasutra. Rgvediyam
Sankhayanagrhyasutram / 2nd rev. ed. 1987. xviii, 56,
203, xv p. ocm18-168374
7. Baudhayana. Sri Grhyasutram / Prathamavrttih. 1986-
v. 1-2 ocm21-332280
8. Krshna Lala, GRHYA-MANTRA AURA UNAKA VINIYOGA. uc
19-056652
9. LELE, BHALCHANDRA CHINTAMAN. SOME ATHARVANIC PORTIONS IN THE
GRHYA-SUTRAS 1927. uc 05-019107
10. Ceylon. RAJYA BHASA DEPARTAMENTUVA. PARIBHASIKA SABDA MALAVA:
GRHYA VIDYAVA. uc 20-014295
11. PARASKARAGRHYASURTRA. PARASKARA GRHYASURTRA. VARANASI, 1970.
uc 19-056662
12. Sanatana vivaha paddhatih : Paraskara Grhyasutranusara
sangopanga, caturthi karmasahita / sampadaka
Krsnananda Sastri. 1. samskarana. Jalandhara :
Bharatiya Samskrta Bhavana, 1986. 11, 76 p. : ill. ;
ocm22-731666

Among libraries in your area, Vanderbilt (Joint University Libraries) has a
fair Oriental collection, due to the labors of Tolman, Stonecipher and Johnson.