Anti-historical Collective Memory of the Past” in the Brahmanical Interpretation of Vrātya Doctrines (Jaiminīya-Brāhmaṇa 2.53–68),

The aim of this article is to analyse a long passage from the Jaiminīya- Brāhmaṇa, i.e., a late Vedic source of the Sāmaveda branch in order to elucidate the embedding strategy the texts adopted after the Śrauta Reform to merge different Indo-Aryan (ritual and speculative) notions in an original manner. Previous research has also shown that the Sāmaveda Brāhmaṇas were especially focused on keeping trace of unorthodox heroically oriented cultures, i.e., of cultures not representative of the Śrauta mainstream, which was instead committed to placing the values of the priestly class at the core and top of social hierarchy. The selected passage (JB 2.53–68) does not marginalise the pattern of the Sattra sacrifice and the doctrine of how to prevent the decay of what is granted by sacrifices (iṣṭāpūrtasya […] akṣiti), but rather compares it with the Śrauta sacrificial horizon and ultimately encapsulates it in the latter. The ultimate purpose of this research is to relocate the plurality of a specific Asian history, namely the multifaceted earliest Indo-Aryan matrix, by means of a philological and linguistic method applied to Vedic sources.