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{{short description|Multi-volume concordance of Vedic Sanskrit texts}}
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'''''A Vedic Word Concordance''''' ([[Sanskrit]]: ''{{IAST|Vaidika-Padānukrama-Koṣa}}'') is a multi-volume [[Concordance (publishing)|concordance]] of the corpus of [[Vedic Sanskrit]] texts. It has been under preparation from 1930 and was published in 1935–1965 under the guidance of [[Acharya Vishva Bandhu|Viśvabandhu Śāstrī]] (1897–1973), with an introduction in Sanskrit and English. It aims to be "a universal vocabulary register" of "Vedic works, with complete textual reference and critical [[Commentary (philology)|commentary]] bearing on [[phonology]], [[Vedic accent|accent]], etymo-morphology, grammar, [[Vedic meter|metre]], text-criticism, and [[Proto-Indo-Iranian|Ur-Aryan]] philology".

==Contents==
The work covers 123,000 word-bases and 5,000,000 word forms found in about 400 Vedic and [[Vedanga]] texts, including [[Vedas|Samhitas]], [[Brahmanas]], [[Aranyakas]] and [[Upanishads]] (even very late ones). The Vedanga section does not cover all the published Shrauta or Grihya texts, however, while the Upanishad section also includes the [[Bhagavad Gita]].

The concordance extends to about 11,000 pages, published in 16 parts:<ref>{{cite book |last=Jamison |first= Stephanie W.|author2= Witzel, Michael|editor= Sharma, Arvind|title= The Study of Hinduism |year= 2003|publisher= University of S. Carolina Press|isbn= 1-57003-449-4|pages= 109–110|chapter= Vedic Hinduism|author2-link= Michael Witzel}}</ref>
*Section: Samhitas (6 parts), 1942–1963.
*Section II: Brahmanas and Aranyakas (2 parts), 1935–36
*Section III: Upanishads (2 parts), 1945
*Section IV: Vedangas (4 parts), 1958–1961
*Index (2 parts), 1964–65.

A revised and enlarged edition was published 1973–1976.

==History of development==
[[Acharya Vishva Bandhu|Viśvabandhu Śāstrī]] continued the work of Vishveshvaranand and Nityanand, who had published word indices to the four Vedic Samhitas in 1908–1910, leading the ''Vishveshvaranand Institute'' from 1924 until his death in 1973.<ref name=history>{{cite web|title = Education in Hoshiarpur|url = http://hoshiarpur.nic.in/html/education.htm|publisher = Hoshiarpur District Administration|access-date = 2008-12-23|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20180414214653/http://hoshiarpur.nic.in/html/education.htm|archive-date = 2018-04-14|url-status = dead}}</ref>

After the [[partition of India]], the institute moved to its present premises at Sadhu Ashram, [[Hoshiarpur]], [[Punjab, India]]. Most of the approximately 6000 Sanskrit manuscripts formerly located at the Dayanand College of Lahore were clandestinely brought to Hoshiarpur at the time. Since 1965, the institute has been incorporated in the [[Panjab University, Chandigarh]] as the ''Vishveshvaranand Institute of Sanskrit and Indological Studies'' (VISIS).<ref name=history/>

Based on the ''Vedic Word Concordance'', the institute currently compiles a ''Dictionary of Vedic Interpretation'', of which the first volume, running up to the lemma ''Agni'', has been completed.

==Editions==
*Vishva Bandhu, Bhim Dev, S. Bhaskaran Nair (eds.), ''{{IAST|Vaidika-Padānukrama-Koṣa}}: A Vedic Word-Concordance'', Vishveshvaranand Vedic Research Institute, Hoshiarpur, 1963–1965.

==References==
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* {{cite journal|last=E. B.|title=''A Vedic Concordance'' by Maurice Bloomfield|journal=Journal of the American Oriental Society|date=April–June 1967|volume=87|issue=2|page=210|jstor=597425|doi=10.2307/597425}}
* {{cite journal|last=Tucci|first=Giuseppe|title=''A Vedic Concordance'' by Maurice Bloomfield|journal=East and West|date=March–June 1967|volume=17|issue=1/2|page=156|jstor=29755128}}
* {{cite journal|last=J. C. W.|title=''A Vedic Concordance'' by Maurice Bloomfield|journal=Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London|date=1965|volume=28|issue=1|pages=210–211|jstor=611786|doi=10.1017/s0041977x00057530}}
* {{cite journal|last=E. V. A.|title=''A Vedic Concordance'' by Maurice Bloomfield|journal=The Classical Review|date=March 1909|volume=23|issue=2|page=58|jstor=693972|doi=10.1017/s0009840x00002833|url=https://zenodo.org/record/1428588}}
* {{cite journal|last=Keith|first=A. Berriedale|author-link=Arthur Berriedale Keith|title=''A Vedic Concordance'' by Maurice Bloomfield|journal=The Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland|date=January 1908|pages=200–204|jstor=25210553}}
* {{cite journal|last=Zubatý|first=Josef|title=''A Vedic Concordance'' by Maurice Bloomfield|journal=Listy Filologické / Folia Philologica|date=1907|volume=34|issue=6|pages=458–460|jstor=23444529}}

==Related works==
*{{Cite book|first = Maurice | last = Bloomfield| author-link = Maurice Bloomfield | title = A Vedic Concordance| year = 1990| publisher = Motilal Banarsidass Publ| isbn = 81-208-0654-9}}
*{{cite book|first = Maurice | last = Bloomfield| author-link = Maurice Bloomfield |author2=Edgerton |author3=Franklin, Emeneau M. B. | title = Vedic variants : a study of the variant readings in the repeated mantras of the Veda| year = 1930| publisher = University of Pennsylvania| oclc = 13965411}}
* {{cite book | first=Marco | last=Franceschini | title=A New Vedic Concordance (2 volumes and CD) | publisher=[[Harvard Oriental Series]] Volume 66 | year=2008}}

==External links==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20110110030237/http://orient.dslo.unibo.it/OSite/vedicconc2005.html Enlarged Electronic Version of Bloomfield's ''A Vedic Concordance''], 2005. ([http://www.zinbun.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~mfujii/shiryo/concordance.txt Plain text version (6.4 MB)])
*[https://vvbisis.puchd.ac.in Vishveshvaranand Vishwa Bandhu Institute of Sanskrit and Indological Studies]

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