THE VEDAS WERE WRITTEN ON PALM -LEAVES AND BIRCH-BARKS,AFTER VERY LONG TIME OF THEIR ORAL EXISTENCE;ONLY FOURTEEN CENTURIES BACK,ILLUMINATING COMMENTARIES ON VEDIC TEXTS CAME INTO EXISTENCE,PERHAPS BECAUSE HUMAN
MEMORY BEGAN TO WEAKEN. NO VEDIC TEXT WAS PRINTED IN INDIA ,TILL THE FAMOUS GERMAN SAGE OF VEDIC LORE Dr.FRIEDRICH MAX MULLER PUBLISHED HIS FIRST EDITION OF THE RIG VEDA WITH SAAYANA'S COMMENTARY IN 1874,BEGINNING HIS WORK IN 1848.
Dr.A.WEBER BROUGHT IN PRINT 'VAAJASANEYI SAMHITAA IN 1852,TAITIRIYA SAMHITAA IN 1871.
DR.L.VON SCHROEDER PUBLISHED CRITICAL EDITIONS OF 'MAITRAAYANI SAMHITAA'
IN 1881-86,AND 'KAATHAKA-SAMHITA IN 1900-11.PROF.STEVENSION GAVE THE TEXT OF 'RAANAAYANIYA' BRANCH OF SAMA VEDA,WITH HIS ENGLISH TRANSLATION IN 1842.
EUGENE BURNOUF PRODUCED THE GERMAN TRANSLATION OF THE 'KAUTHUMIYA' BRANCH OF SAMVEDA IN 1848
ROTH AND W.D.WHITNEY EDITED 'ATHARVA VEDA'IN 1856.
BETWEEN 1849 AN D 1914,MANY WESTERN SANSKRITISTS LIKE
PROF.M.HAUG,PROF.B.LINDER,DR.A.C.BURNELL,DR.H.OERTAL,PROF.A.F.STENZLER,
D.GAESTRA,HILLEBRANDT,CALAND,R.GARBE,F.KANUER,M.BLOOMFIELD,DR.H.OLDENBURG,
DR.H.DR.H.WILSON,H.GRAASMEN,A.LUDWIG,R.T.H.GRIFFITH,DR.A.B.KEITH,DR.JACOBI,PROF.THEODORE
GOLD STUCKER,SIR MONIER WILLIAMS,ETC.,WERE THE PIONEERS IN THIS FIELD OF THE PUBLICATION OF VEDIC TEXTS,AND THEY GAVE TO THE WORLD MOST OF THE
VEDIC TEXT THEN AVAILABLE.THESE BOOKS PAVED THE WAY FOR THE INDIAN SCHOLARS TO PUBLISH THE CRITICAL EDITIONS OF THE VEDIC TEXTS.
REF.K.S.SRINIVASACHARYA.
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