Counted among the foremost vedic scholars and philologists of his time, Tarapada Chowdhury taught Sanskrit at Patna University for close to a quarter of a century. This volume presents his landmark treatise On the Interpretation of Some Doubtful Words in the Atharvaveda, first published in 1931, along with six other classic essays on the Vedas, Ramayana, Linguistics of Bengali and the poetics of Kalidasa: Theism in Ayurveda; The Vedas' and Ramayana' first published in History of Philosophy: Eastern and Western edited by S. Radhakrishnan (1952); The Undiras: A Review (1936); Some Phonetic Peculiarities of the Bengali Dialect of Manbhum (1951) and Linguistic Aberrations in Kalidasas Writings?(1951).
The volume will be of immense interest to scholars of Sanskrit, Vedic linguistics, Kalidasa and Hindu philosophy.
A pioneering Vedic scholar and Sanskrit philologist examines ambiguous Atharvaveda terms in a landmark treatise, complemented by essays on Vedic literature, the Ramayana, Bengali dialects, and Kalidasa's poetics. The work offers an engaging exploration of ancient language and philosophy.
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Preface 9
1. On the Interpretation of Some Doubtful Words in the Atharvaveda 11
2. Theism in Ayurveda 89
3. The Undiras: A Review 97
4. The Vedas 121
5. The Ramayana 139
6. Some Phonetic Peculiarities of the Bengali Dialect of Manbhum 151
7. Linguistic Aberrations in Kalidasas Writings 161
Tarapada Chowdhury (1906-59) M.A., B.L., Ph.D (London) was Head of Department Sanskrit, Patna College, Patna University. He also taught Linguistics, German, French and Bengali at the University. Among his major works is Uadistrni (1940), Avyayaviveka (1946), and the critical editions of Taittinya-ik (1935); Paryyaratnaml (1946) and Paryyamuktvali (1946).
