Author: Vidya Nivas Misra
Publisher: Manohar
Year: 2000
Language: English
Pages: 450
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8173042543
Description
This is the twelfth volume in the series of the collected works of Ananda K Coomaraswamy on some aspects of Vedic text as one integrated perception.
Published by Indira Gandhi National centre for the Arts Trust these collection of essays by Coomaraswamy are an exposition of Vedas by means of a translation and commentary in which the resources of other forms of the universal traditions are taken for granted. He has used the resources of Vedic and Christian scriptures side by side.
Coomaraswamy has tried to make accurate, evocative translations of Vedic and Upanisadic texts through the use of scholastic language and composite words.These translations are followed by copious notes covering related passages from other texts and translations in order to bring out a fuller meaning of the process of creation.
This volume will sure open up a new vista of interpreting the Vedic lore so that we can reintegrate our own fuller being with the fuller manifestation of the cosmic order in which resides the Truth of Truths.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Preamble by V N Misra
The Vedas-Essays in Translation and Exegesis:
Preface by Ananda K Coomaraswamy
A New Approach to the Vedas
The Rgveda as Land-Nama-Bok
Notes on the Katha Upanisad
The Darker Side of Dawn
Recollection, Indian and Platonic
The Vedic Doctrine of Silence
The Tantric Doctrine of Divine Biunity
Kha and Other words Denoting Zero,
in Connection with the Indian Metaphysics of Space
On the One and Only Transmigrant
Vedic Monotheism
Bhaktan Aspects of the Atman Doctrine
Maha Purusa: Supreme Identity
Nirukta=Hermeneia
The Flood in Hindu Tradition
The Vedanta and Western Tradition
Vedic Exemplarism
Atmayajna: Self-Sacrifice
Manas
List of Abbreviations and Short Titles
Index