Presenting an Enlarged Electronic Version of
Bloomfield's A Vedic Concordance
The files contained in the freely downloadable archive presented in this site are the result of a research project undertaken by Marco Franceschini at the Department of Oriental Studies of the University of Turin: an enlarged electronic version of Bloomfield's 1906 A Vedic Concordance is now available, five years after the first electronic version of Bloomfield’s original work. Some 20,000 mantras have been added to the already considerable bulk of textual material contained in Bloomfield’s Concordance: the "new" mantras are taken from six Vedic texts which were not included in the previous version or were in need of major revision, namely Paippalada-Samhita (books 1-15), Jaiminiya-Brahmana, Katha-Aranyaka, Manava-Srautasutra, Jaiminiya-Grhyasutra and Varaha-Grhyasutra. The inner architecture of Bloomfield’s work has been preserved as far as possible, with all added, emended or modified text being visualized in red.

 The archive contains five files:
- the two files called "Introduction" and "Abbreviations" are replicas of Bloomfield's chapters by the same name, and contain his explanations on the structure of the work, and his comprehensive list of bibliographical sources and abbreviations; relevant information concerning the six Vedic texts this enlarged version of the Concordance is based on have been added to these two files themselves;
- the file named "Concordance" is the working part of the archive: it comes in two formats (.rtf and .doc), both working on Mac and Windows platforms. The files are Unicode compliant and are written using "Gandhari Unicode" font, developed by Andrew Glass and freely downloadable at: http://andrewglass.org/fonts.php. You can switch to any other font, provided it includes all the glyphs used for transliteration of Sanskrit. Please note that in the electronic Concordance each entry is marked by a bullet (•), while mantras and references are separated by a #-sign;
- the file named "Copyright" contains the rules concerning the use of this work (stated also below, see "Copyright notice").

Bologna, March 2005

Marco Franceschini
(marco.franceschini3@unibo.it)
Copyright notice

The electronic version of Maurice Bloomfield's A Vedic Concordance, Cambridge (Mass.), 1906  (henceforth: Concordance) is copyright 1906, 2000, 2005  by Harvard University Press and Marco Franceschini (henceforth: copyright holders).  The Concordance may not be modified, posted on information services, reproduced on microfilm, printed or sold, either by itself or in combination with any other product, without the express written permission of the copyright holders.
You are welcome to download the Concordance for purposes of research or study; please quote it in your references if you make use of it in research publications.
The Concordance is provided "as is" and without warranty, express and implied, including, but not limited to, any implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose. In no event will the copyright holders be liable for any damages, including lost profits, lost savings, or other incidental or consequential damages, even if the copyright holders are advised of the possibility of such damages, or for any claim by you or any third party.
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