A Study of the Existent Vedic Traditions

本研究旨在收集有关印度吠陀仪式和文本传统的信息和文献，并通过对吠陀传统传承地的广泛田野调查，研究现存吠陀传统的现状。在三年中，我们进行了八次实地考察，特别是在最南端的喀拉拉邦和泰米尔纳德邦，亚尤尔吠陀的瓦都罗学派和萨摩吠陀的Jaiminiya学派。我们调查了这两个学派的整个传统，收集了它们的历史运动、地理分布、与邻近学派的关系等信息，并追踪和拍摄了大量吠陀经典手稿，包括用梵文和当地语言写成的未知手稿。作为本研究的主要成果，我们做了一份研究报告，其中包括对吠陀罗学派和Jaiminiya学派手稿的传统和描述性目录的调查：-在新手稿的基础上对吠陀罗学派基本文本的调查。（日文）——获得的毗陀罗学派手稿目录。（日文）-记录当下的斋明屋传统。（英文）- 2002-2004年追踪和拍摄的斋弥尼雅萨摩吠陀手稿目录。(英文)

This study aims to collect the information and documents about Vedic ritual and textual traditions in India, and to study the present situations of the existent Vedic traditions, through extensive fieldwork in the places where Vedic traditions have been handed down. We have carried out fieldwork eight times during the three years, especially focusing on the Vadhula school of the Yajurveda and the Jaiminiya school of the Samaveda in the southernmost states, Kerala and Tamil Nadu. We have investigated the whole of the traditions of both schools, and collected information on their historical movements, geographical distributions, relations with neighboring schools, etc., and have traced and photographed a large number of manuscripts of Vedic texts, including unknown ones, written in Sanskrit and in local languages. As a main fruit of the present study, we have made a research report which consists of the following surveys of the traditions and descriptive catalogues of the manuscripts of the Vadhula and Jaiminiya schools :-A Survey of the basic texts of the Vadhula school on the basis of new manuscripts. (in Japanese)-A Catalogue of the acquired manuscripts of the Vadhula school. (in Japanese)-Documenting the Present Jaiminiya Traditions. (in English)-A Catalogue of the Manuscripts of the Jaiminiya Samaveda traced and photographed in 2002-2004.(in English)