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Tatyana Elizarenkova
Татьяна Елизаренкова
Born	(1929-09-17)17 September 1929 Leningrad, Soviet Union (modern-day Saint Petersburg, Russia)
Died	5 September 2007(2007-09-05) (aged 77) Moscow, Russia
Spouse	Vladimir Toporov ​ (died 2005)​
Academic work
Main interests	Indology semiotics

Tatyana Yakovlevna Elizarenkova (Russian:Татьяна Яковлевна Елизаренкова; 17 September 1929 – 5 September 2007) was a RussianIndologist and linguist, known for her study of theVedas. She was described byWendy Doniger as "the greatest living scholar of theRigVeda, and certainly, the greatest linguist of theRigVeda".^[1] In 1972, she published a translation of selected Rigvedic hymns intoRussian, which eventually evolved into a complete translation ofRigveda in the following decades, published byNauka between 1989 and 1999 in three volumes. Her complete Russian translation ofAtharvaveda was published between 2005 and 2010, also in three volumes.

In 1976, together with her husbandVladimir Toporov, she published in English a linguistic analysis ofPali:The Pali Language. She was also an expert onHindi, and published numerous works on its grammar.

Elizarenkova and Toporov were also the chief driving forces ofTartu–Moscow Semiotic School.

India had honored her with thePadma Shri in 2004 for her contributions in the study ofVedas.^[2]

• 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

• Jan Gonda – Dutch Indologist (1905–1991)
• F. B. J. Kuiper – Dutch linguist (1907–2003)

• Elizarenkova, Tatyana J. (1995),Language And Style Of The Vedic Rsis, Albany: State University of New York Press

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