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Reassessing Rigvedic Strata

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2021
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Hellwig, O., Scarlata, S., & Widmer, P. (2021). Reassessing Rigvedic Strata. Journal of the American Oriental Society, 141(4), 847–865. https://doi.org/10.5913/jaos.141.4.2021.ar032

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It is commonly assumed that linguistically the Rigveda is a heterogeneous collection of texts. Since the early days of Vedic scholarship, researchers have tried to correlate grammatical properties with individual parts of the Rigveda, aiming at identifying layers and strata. In this article we review stratifications proposed in previous literature and assess the support for these strata by performing statistical analyses with allomorphic linguistic features that have been claimed to bear signals of stratification. In addition, we run

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141

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4

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847

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865

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English

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2021-12-23

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2021-12-27

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0003-0279

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216 since deposited on 2021-12-27
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Hellwig, O., Scarlata, S., & Widmer, P. (2021). Reassessing Rigvedic Strata. Journal of the American Oriental Society, 141(4), 847–865. https://doi.org/10.5913/jaos.141.4.2021.ar032

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