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- bright ornament V If the connection between mistannii
- reward ’ and Skt. mtdhd - proposed by. Mayrhofer is accepted,
then we have a pre-Vedic Indo-Iranian form ( *mizdha -) repre- sented. A complete bibliography to the end of 1965, and a summing up of the subject, is provided by M. Mayrhofer in Die Indo- Arier im alien Vorderasien; mil einer analytischen Bibliographic , Wiesbaden, 1966. There is also a detailed discussion of the subject by A. Kammenhuber in Die Arier im vorderen Orient, Heidelberg, 1968. The work contains valuable discussions, but carries scepticism too far (on which see M. Mayrhofer, Die vorderasiatischen Arier , Asiatische Studien (fitudes Asiatiques) XXIII, pp. 139-154), Bern, j 9 6 9 * The Aryan gods of the Mitanni treaties are discussed in an important article by P. Thieme in JAOS, 80, pp. 301-317, ig6o. CHAPTER II § 2. On the subject matter of this section see further: M. B. Emeneau, The dialects of old Indo-Aryan, in H. Birnbaum and J. Puhvel (ed.), Ancient Indo-European dialects , Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1966. § 3. The study of Panini and the Sanskrit grammarians has been actively pursued during recent years. The following are the most important publications since 1955: P. Thieme, Panini and the Pdnintyas, JAOS, 76, pp. 1-23, 1956; L. Renou, Terminologie grammaticale du Sanskrit (2nd ed.), Paris, 1957; Y. Ojihara and L, Renou, La Kdsikd-vrtti {Adhyaya I, Pada i), Paris, 1960-67; K. V. Abhyankar, A dictionary of Sanskrit grammar , Baroda, 1961; B. Shefts, Grammatical method in Panini; his treatment of Sanskrit present stems , New Haven, 1961 ; K. Birwe, Der Ganapdtha zu den Adhydyas IV and V der Grammatik Pdninis , Vet such einer Rekonstruktion , Wiesbaden, 1961, and Studien zu Adhyaya III der Astddhyayt Pdninis , Wiesbaden, 1966; V. N. Misra, The descriptive technique of Panini, The Hague, 1966; R. Rocher, La tkeorie des voix du verbe dans Vecole panininienne, Brussels, 1968; G. Cardona, Studies in Indian grammarians , I : the method of description reflected in the Sivasutras, Philadelphia, 1969.
