In this and the next volumes, the third and the fourth in the series, the traditional approach has been illustrated Traditionally the study of Rgveda begins with the Pranava (Omkära) and proceeds with the vyährtis (Bhüh, Bhuvah and Suvah), the Gayatri Mantra, and Purusha Sükta. The Purusha Sükta is regarded as the epitome of the entire Vedic Cannon, and as having taken shape from the Gayatri Mantra. It is an elaboration of the Gayatri Mantra, even as the three pådas of the Gayatri Mantra have grown out of the Three Vyährtis and the Vyährtis themselves are claborations of the three constituent units of the Pranava (a, u and m). It is therefore that tradition insists that the study must follow this line of development.
As in the case of the previous volumes, my gratitude must be expressed for Shri Daivajna K.N. Somayajı, the Chief Editor and Director of the Kalpatharu Research Academy, who has involved me in these publications to my own satisfaction and sense of fulfillment, for Sri Sri Sri Bharati Tirtha Swami of Sri Sharada Peetham of Sringeri, who is the Chief Patron of the Kalpatharu Research Academy, and for Sri V.R. Gown Shankar the Administrator of the Sri Sharada Peetham and Chairman of Kalpatharu Research Academy
I am grateful to Sri Venkatesh Babu and Sri Nagendra of the Omkar Offset Printers, for their uniform and unfailing courtesy during the production of these volumes.
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