Indian religions have lots of philosophy and hundreds of scriptures with commentaries and commentaries on commentaries, which present a highly complicated picture especially in comparison to one-book religion- cultures The Golden Books select the most important and the best of them, translated into simple, easy and understandable English, by learned scholars and present them in capsule form for wider use and benefit.

The book on Rigveda is a sampler of all the deities, like Agni, Indra, Soma, Varuna, etc., with originals in Sanskrit and translations into English, which provide an interesting yet comprehensive picture of the life of the Aryans, one of the oldest world cultures, which formed the nucleus of the future culture of India, which, with the passage of time, assimilated many other religio- philosophical currents, as well as races of all hues and colours, to acquire its present holistic, tolerant to every human being form and structure we are living today.

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