Skip to content
VedAnvaya
Search
Back to AVS 9.10.27

Shared wording with AVS 9.10.27

The same verse as it stands in two collections, with the surface that matched and the evidence behind the link.

Parallel wording

AVS 9.10.27RV 1.164.45

Closely similar wording in both passages.

Partial coverage
AtharvavedaAVS 9.10.27

catvā́ri vā́k párimitā padā́ni tā́ni vidur brāhmaṇā́ yé manīṣíṇaḥ | gúhā trī́ṇi níhitā néṅgayanti turī́yaṃ vācó manuṣyā̀ vadanti ||27||

Speech [is] four measured out quarters (''padá''); those are known by Brahmans who are skilful; three, deposited in secret, they do not set in motion (''in̄gay-''); a fourth of speech human beings speak.
William Dwight Whitney (revised and edited by Charles Rockwell Lanman)
RigvedaRV 1.164.45

ca̱tvāri̱ vāk pari̍mitā pa̱dāni̱ tāni̍ vidur brāhma̱ṇā ye ma̍nī̱ṣiṇa̍ḥ | guhā̱ trīṇi̱ nihi̍tā̱ neṅga̍yanti tu̱rīya̍ṁ vā̱co ma̍nu̱ṣyā̍ vadanti ||

Speech hath been measured out in four divisions, the Brahmans who have understanding know them. Three kept in close concealment cause no motion; of speech, men speak only the fourth division.
Ralph T. H. Griffith

The surface that matched

Both passages fold to the same comparison surface. Accents, word breaks and sandhi are removed before comparison, so this string is not how either text reads.

catvāri vāk parimitā padāni tāni vidur brāhmaṇā ye manīṣiṇaḥ guhā trīṇi nihitā neṅgayanti turīyaṃ vāco manuṣyā vadanti

Evidence for this link

Relationship classes
Parallel wording
Match level
Script folded
Knowledge grade
Derived
How it was established
Derived by rule
Overlap
100% of character n-grams shared
Stored direction
AVS 9.10.27 is the subject of the stored edge
Technical details

Method: crossveda-parallels:identity:SCRIPT_FOLDED

Knowledge layer: L2_DETERMINISTIC_DERIVED

Review state: ACCEPTED

Relationship id: VG:ENRICH:PARALLEL:fb94f248b71180c50c3b44ca8722c626

What a match here does and does not show

These links are derived by comparing normalised Sanskrit surfaces. They show that two collections carry the same wording. They are not, by themselves, a demonstrated line of transmission between them, and the direction stored on an edge is a property of how it was built.

Atharvaveda is one of four collections held here. Cross-corpus comparison bottoms out at the weakest shared surface, because a Devanagari text and a romanised text share no code points.

How these were derived1

  • Parallelism is symmetric and this graph stores it as a directed edge, so these relations are traversed in both directions and each row states which way the stored edge ran. All 1,684 REUSES_TEXT_FROM edges point Samaveda-to-Rigveda, and 1,421 Rigvedic passages have reuse edges only inbound; following the arrow would show those 1,421 verses no reuse at all.

    measured