Veda is considered to be the foundational pillar of Vedic philosophical tradition and culture. The emergence of Vedas precedes the recorded history of man. A commonly held view is that they emerged from the innermost core of Brahma’s consciousness at the beginning of creation. Various evidences have been put forward to establish that since Veda is one of the most ancient scriptures, it is the m...

The Vedas are the first texts in the library of mankind. They are universally acknowledged to be the most precious Indian Heritage. The antiquity to the Vedic civilization is debated to a great extent but indeed there is no civilization known to humanity with such antiquity as Vedic Aryan Civilization. The so-called Aryans would have originated in the Aryavarta. N. J. Lockyer has declared: šThe...

Habitualmente, en el mundo académico que se ocupaba del pensamiento de la India, era normal afirmara los cuatro Vedas no encontraba nada filosofía. Había esperar al surgimiento las Upaniṣad para estuviéramos ante fenómeno filosófico, luego desarrollarían seis dársanas o sistemas clásicos hinduismo (el budismo tiene su propia trayectoria). Solo René Guénon y sus seguidores atribuían a presencia ...

Vedic literature contains knowledge about all fields of human endeavor, from physics and psychology to medicine, art and aeronautics (Goswami, 1977). Empirical validation of the Vedas could therefore open storehouses of knowledge in many areas. According to the Vedas, all material elements are infused with the modes of nature, or gunas-sattva, rajas and tamas. Dasgupta (1961) describes the guna...

THIS paper is concerned with a glimpse into the wealth of ancient Indian medical literature. A small sampling of the general knowledge and thoughts of these ancients will be presented along with an attempt to place their leading texts into some historical perspective. Following this, emphasis will be placed on some of the writings of what may be called 'Ancient Indian Dermatology'. Most modern ...

Starting with the deontic principles in Mı̄mām. sā texts we introduce a new deontic logic. We use general proof-theoretic methods to obtain a cut-free sequent calculus for this logic, resulting in decidability, complexity results and neighbourhood semantics. The latter is used to analyse a well known example of conflicting obligations from the Vedas.

1. Writer G. Hancock follows R. G. Wasson’s researches into the use of a hallucinogenic or, as the newer term is, entheogenic drug from the mushroom amanita muscaria (= fly agaric) and indologists S. Kamrisch and W. Doniger O’ Flaherty (1986): they all think that this mushroom was the soma potion, so amply celebrated in the RV (=Ṛgveda). He then concludes that “an ancient hallucinogenic cult ex...

Puranas contain the essence of Vedas. are vast genre Indian literature about a wide range topics, particularly legends and other traditional lore. They narratives history universe from creation to destruction genealogies kings, heroes, sages deities. Some puranas discourses on cosmology, geography Hindu philosophy. usually written in form dialogue. The were meant, not for scholars, but ordinary...

Shruti and Smriti: Revelation and Tradition [14] Shruti (“revealed”) texts have been divinely revealed to the early sages (rishis). Written in Sanskrit, and dated between 1500 and 300 BCE. Key examples: The Vedas and Upanishads. Smriti (“remembered”) texts are of human composition (albeit based on divine truths). Key examples: the Epics (e.g., the Bhagavad-Gita and the Ramayana), Puranas (e.g. ...