Facets Of Vedic Studies

This monograph is an anthology of twenty articles on Vedic expositions, interpretations and speculations. The Veda is not only a religious text, but also a literature of the most ancient period, a primordial source of human knowledge, “Knowledge par excellence”. This sacred text portrays the microscopic observations of the Vedic seers on macroscopic subjects. Ostensibly, different scholars have been analysing the Vedic material from diverse angles. The aim and objective of this project is to focuss all such diverse studies in the Veda by congregating them in one volume. Learned reviews of our Vedic scholars in the contemporary context have been included in this treatise. The contents here project the Vedic knowledge of mythology, religion, philosophy, literature, grammar, cosmology, cosmogony, space and time, astronomy, sociology, fine arts, poetry, games and sports, accent, mathematics, warfare, education and the science of healing by herbs and plants. Discussions on Vedic Meters, Vedic Hostile Groups and Individuals, Vedic System of Education and the Ayurveda are the alarming constituents of this monograph. The analysis of every topic is lucid, informative and subject based. Scholars have undertaken a tedious task of exercising their capabilities in the way of extracting the very primitive speculations and conceptions made in the Veda. The Vedic deities are also the significant limbs of the Vedic literature. Indeed, different branches of Vedic studies evolve with the revolution around these age-old divinities which are really manifested in our natural phenomena. This book includes an articles on the Vedic deity Aditi, the imperishable one. Though varieties of discourses on wide range of subjects of the Vedic literature have been carried out here, still many more are left to be taken up in future. However, the present work embraces most of the thrust areas in which the general readers find their interest. Contents Chapter 1: Prolegomenon by Dr Bidyut Lata Ray, Chapter 2: Some Aspects of Vedic Studies by Dr G U Thite, Chapter 3: Emergence of the Aranyakas by Dr Didhiti Biswas, Chapter 4: Siksa Sastra and Accental Semantics by Veda Varidhi P Pamanujan, Chapter 5: Aditi: The Imperishable and a Goddess of Mortality by Dr Shrimanta Chattopadhyay, Chapter 6: Vedic Mythology by Dr D S Das, Chapter 7: Vedic Philosophy by Dr Bidyut Lata Ray, Chapter 8: Vedic Religion by Dr Brajakishore Swain, Chapter 9: Vedic Astronomy by Dr Padmakar Vishnu Vartak, Chapter 10: Games and Sports in the Veda by Dr P K Datta, Chapter 11: Space and Time in the Veda by Dr S Biswal, Chapter 12: Fine Arts in Veda by Dr Vaijayanti Shete, Chapter 13: The Poetic Beauty in Rigveda by Dr K C Mahalik, Chapter 14: Vedic Meters by Dr R K Panda, Chapter 15: Vedic Hostile Groups and Individuals by Dr U Chakravarty, Chapter 16: The Atharvan Roots of Ayurveda by Prof K V Sarma, Chapter 17: Vedic System of Education by Dr V Ramachandran Nair, Chapter 18: Warfare of the Vedic Period by Prof N Gangadharan, Chapter 19: Vedic Mathematics by Dr S Biswal, Chapter 20: Medicinal Herbs in the Atharvaveda with Special Reference to Ayurveda by Dr Gauri Mahulikar