The Atharva –Veda is a book of ancient wisdom which deals with a number of subjects which have supra-terrestrial and terrestrial significance. He has completed the project ‘Contribution of Karnataka to Sanskrit’ sponsored by the University Grants Commission, New Delhi.
#ATHARVA VEDA DEVI CHAND MANUAL#
Professor Modak has edited Svarajya-Siddhi, a manual of Advaita Vedantaa.
He was hounoured by the Government of Karnataka for his valuable contribution to Sanskrit literature. Modak delivered lectures in a number of universities both in India and the USA. He was Professor of Sanskrit at the Karnataka University. The study concludes with an index of the Atharva –Veda Brahmana, the Kausika Sutra, the Vaitana sutra, the Parisistas and other Vedic texts.ĭr B. of the parasites have also been discussed. Some general questions such as those relating to the date, the style, etc. All the Parisistas have been studied in detail and their contents have been critically and systematically restated. The second part deals exclusive and exhaustively with the Atharva-Veda Parisistas. The first part describes in brief the nature and contents of the Atharca-Veds sanhita nad then takes up the ancillary texts, other than the Parisistas. The present study is divided into two parts.
The Atharva Veda Parisistas deal with a number of subjects like the lore of constellations, royal ceremonies, rituals, religious observances, magic, philology, omens and portents, etc. This book also aims at bringing to the foreground the vast and important but mostly neglected literature in the Vedic field, namely, the Atharva-Veda Parisistas. It undertakes to give at one place a comprehensive and connected account of the profuse ancillary literature belonging to the Atharva-veda. The present work seeks to focus attention on the richness and variety of the Atharvanic literature.