Four Mantra Samhita Books The four mantra-samhita books, characterized by their appellations Rik, Yajus, Sāma and Atharva are made up of mantrās. These are poetic verses, some of which are metrical and the remaining...
Names and Groups of Books The core of this collection is the set of four types of books, namely Rigveda mantra Samhita, Yajurveda mantra Samhita, Sāmaveda mantra Samhita and the Atharvaveda mantra Samhita; each type...
Books by Ambalal Purani His two books on veda are: (i) Studies in Vedic Interpretation; Published by Chowkhamba, Sanskrit series, 1963. It compares the interpretation of Sri Aurobindo with those of Sayana and yaska....
Books by S K Ramachandra Rao Saligrama Ramachandra Rao: He has written many books. We focus only on his ‘Rig Veda Darshana’ with seventeen volumes. He quotes extensively the commentaries in Sanskrit due to Madhvacharya, Raghavendra...
Vedic Interpretations and Translations The earliest explanations of the mantra Samhitās are in the Brāhmaņa books which date at least a thousand years later (i.e., around 3500 BCE). Even though the Brāhmaņa books give...
Printed Texts of Mantra Samhita The Vedās were written on palm-leaves and birch-barks. The earliest manuscripts are dated very roughly around 800 CE and the first person to do so was Vishukra as quoted in...
