Vedic Venues : Vol. 2

Contents: 1. Vedic roots and radical reformulation of Gandhi's philosophy non-violence, peace and civilisational harmony/D. Allen. 2. An upanisadic exposition of the term dharma/S.K. Borah. 3. Powers of ten genesis and mystical significance/A.K. Dutta. 4. Indo-European Vedic and post Vedic meanings of Arya/L. Elst. 5. Discussion of B.N. Achar's paper chronology of Vedic rsis in Vedic Venues Vol. 1/R.N. Iyengar. 5. Response to discussion of the paper of B.N. Achar's paper chronology of Veduc rsis in Vedic venues, Vol. 1/R.N. Iyengar and B.R. Narahari Achar. 6. IE isoglosses: what they dont show us/N. Kazanas. Yes we have here yet another periodical on the Vedic Culture, whose riches seem inexhaustible. For apart from the humility Dirghatamas expresses, we meet many ideas of deep philosophical import as in 3.54.8 which states that the one rules the entire manifest multiplicity, or in 3.55 where the refrain states that single ekam is the great God power asuratvam of the Gods, and so on. We meet also the concept of natural law or Course of nature rta maintaining order in the Cosmos, also aspects of astronomy medicine, metallurgy and crafts like pottery, weaving etc.We have moreover one of the oldest and richest languages of humanity reflecting as no other language does the order seen and praised in nature with its dhatus and their fairly systematic development into nominal declensions and verbal conjugations. …