Gems from the Indic Treasure Trove

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In this book the author has presented an insight into the multifaceted cultural heritage of India, both Vedic and post-Vedic. Through twelve well written research oriented articles, she has touched upon topics like the Vedic seer-poet's vision of the Divine, universal nature of the cult of sun worship across divergent prehistoric civilizations of the world, cosmological speculations of the Vedic mystics which bear uncanny similarities with the scientific notions of the modern era physicists about the birth and nature of the universe, political ideals of the Vedic and post Vedic Indians, hermeneutics, Vedic studies in medieval India and so on.

Dr. Maitreyee Bora is a retired Professor of Sanskrit and former Dean of the Faculty of Arts, Gauhati University. Her primary area of study and research covers Vedic and allied literature. She has published a host of research papers in research journals of repute like the Vishveshvaranand Indological Journal, Journal of the Oriental Institute of Baroda, Journal of Asiatic Society Kolkata, Journal of the Department of Hindu Studies & Indian Philosophy of University of Durban-Westville, Journal of the Sankardev Institute of Culture International, Vanmaya the Journal of Sanskrit Sahitya Academy of Gandhinagar and so on. She has also contributed research papers to some felicitation volumes. Dr. Bora has authored a book titled Facets of Vedic Religion and Culture and an Assamese translation of the three Atharvavedic Upanisads.

We the Indians are by the grace of the Almighty, fortunate enough to inherit an invaluable treasure of Indic knowledge and wisdom embodied in the works authored by great scholars and intellectuals of our country. Since its inception in pre-historic India, the seers and teachers of the vast Vedic literature that make up the Vedic lore have enriched the treasure trove of India's multifaceted heritage with their insightful and analytical world view. Scholars both Vedic and post Vedic kept enriching this literary treasure down the ages through their intellectual pursuits in various fields of studies like religion, philosophy, cosmology and cosmogony, social and political ideals of the masses, hermeneutics, exegesis and so on.

Twelve topics related to Indic studies have been included in this book. These topics have been widely studied and many Indologists and Sanskritists of repute have written scholarly articles on them. This book is my attempt to bring forth different facets of these topics and my perception of their significance. My deliberations in the articles are undeniably influenced by the works of other scholars on these topics and I am thankful to them for the insights that I have gained.

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