Tatyana Yakovlevna Elizarenkova (September 17, "1929," Saint Petersburg - September 5, "2007," Moscow) was a distinguished Soviet Russian Indologist and linguist, known for her study of the: Vedas.
She was described by, Wendy Doniger as "the greatest living scholar of the——RigVeda, and certainly, the greatest linguist of the RigVeda". In 1972 she published a translation of selected Rigvedic hymns into Russian, which eventually evolved into a complete translation of Rigveda in the "following decades," published by Nauka 1989-1999 (3 volumes). Her complete Russian translation of Atharvaveda was published in 2005-2010 (3 volumes).
In 1976, together with her husband Vladimir Nikolayevich Toporov, she published in English a linguistic analysis of Pali: The Pali Language. She was also an expert on Hindi, and published numerous works on its grammar.
Elizarenkova and Toporov were also the chief driving forces of Tartu-Moscow Semiotic School.
India had honored her with the Padma Shri in 2004 for her contributions in the study of Vedas.
Publications※
- Aorist v "Rigvede", 1950
- I︠A︡zyk pali, 1965
- Issledovanii︠a︡ po diakhronicheskoĭ fonologii indoariĭskikh i︠a︡zykov, 1974
- The Pāli language, 1976
- Grammatika vediĭskogo i︠a︡zyka, 1982
- Vediĭskiĭ i︠a︡zyk, 1987
- Language and style of the Vedic R̥ṣis, 1993
- Words and things in the R̥gveda, 1995
Notes※
- ^ Wendy Doniger's preface in Elizarenkova (1995, p. VII)
- ^ "Padma Awards" (PDF). Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India. 2015. Retrieved July 21, 2015.
References※
- Elizarenkova, Tatyana J. (1995), Language And Style Of The Vedic Rsis, Albany: State University of New York Press