On the text and metres of the Rigveda see especially Oldenberg,
Die Hymnen des Rigveda, vol. i., Prolegomena, Berlin, 1888; on the
accent, Wackernagel, Altindische Grammatik, vol. i. pp. 281-300
(full bibliography), Göttingen, 1896; on the Rigveda in general,
Kaegi, The Rigveda, English translation by Arrowsmith, Boston,
1886. Editions: Samhita text, ed. Max Müller, London, 1873; Pada
text, 1877; Samhita text (in Roman characters), ed. Aufrecht, Bonn,
1877 (2nd ed.); Samhita and Pada text with Sayana's commentary,
2nd ed., 4 vols., by Max Müller, London, 1890-92. Selections in
Lanman's Sanskrit Reader (full notes and vocabulary); Peterson's
Hymns from the Rigveda (Bombay Sanskrit Series); A. Bergaigne and
V. Henry's Manuel pour étudier le Sanskrit Védique, Paris, 1890;
Windisch, Zwölf Hymnen des Rigveda, Leipzig, 1883; Hillebrandt,
Vedachrestomathie, Berlin, 1885; Böhtlingk, Sanskrit-Chrestomathie,
3rd ed., Leipsic, 1897. Translations: R. H. T. Griffith, The Rigveda
metrically translated into English, 2 vols., Benares, 1896-97;
Max Müller, Vedic Hymns (to the Maruts, Rudra, Vayu, Vata; prose),
in Sacred Books of the East, vol. xxxii., Oxford, 1891; Oldenberg,
Vedic Hymns (to Agni in Books i.-v.: prose), ibid., vol. xlvi.,
1897; A. Ludwig (German prose), 6 vols., Prag, 1876-88 (introduction,
commentary, index). Lexicography: Grassmann, Wörterbuch zum Rigveda,
Leipsic, 1873; the Vedic portion of Böhtlingk and Roth's Lexicon and
of Böhtlingk's smaller St. Petersburg Dictionary (Leipsic, 1879-89);
Monier-Williams, Sanskrit-English Dictionary, 2nd ed., Oxford, 1899;
Macdonell, Sanskrit-English Dictionary (for selected hymns), London,
1893. Grammar: Whitney, Sanskrit Grammar, 3rd ed., Leipzig, 1896;
Wackernagel, op. cit., vol. i. (phonology); Delbrück, Altindische
Syntax (vol. v. of Syntaktische Forschungen), Halle, 1888; Speijer,
Vedische und Sanskrit Syntax in Bühler's Encyclopædia, Strasburg, 1896.
CHAPTERS IV. AND V.
Consult especially Macdonell, Vedic Mythology, in Bühler's
Encyclopædia, vol. iii. part 1 (complete bibliography), 1897; also
Kaegi, op. cit.; Muir, Original Sanskrit Texts, vol. v., 3rd ed.,
London, 1884; Barth, The Religions of India, English trans., London,
1882; Hopkins, The Religions of India, Boston, 1895; Oldenberg, Die
Religion des Veda, Berlin, 1894; Bergaigne, La Religion Védique, 3
vols., Paris, 1878-83; Pischel and Geldner, Vedische Studien, 2 vols.,
Stuttgart, 1889-92; Deussen, Allgemeine Geschichte der Philosophie,
vol. i. part 1: Philosophie des Veda, Leipsic, 1894. On method of
interpretation (pp. 59-64), cf. Muir, The Interpretation of the Veda,
in the Journal of the Roy. As. Soc., 1866. Page 68: On the modification
of the threefold division of the universe among the Greeks, cf. Kaegi,
op. cit., note 118. P. 128: On dice in India and the Vibhidaka tree,
cf. Roth in Gurupujakaumudi, pp. 1-4, Leipsic, 1896.