The Rig Veda Reconsidered: The First Four Books of The Rig Veda In the Light of Modern Aesthetics
Jul 2014 · Anjali Publishers
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Apart for its mythological and philosophical significance Vedas have high literary values which demand in depth studies. Being the oldest among all, Veda, as literature, attained great aesthetic height and this critical analysis of the poems/ hymns/ suktas of the first four books of Rig Veda by Shri. Mukhopadhyay, a triple M.A. , M.Phil and Ph.D with various literary accomplishments, certainly is first ever work in the study of literature on Vedas as a book of Literature. The study is a difficult one as the exact date of composition is unknown. The very fact that it is handed down from generation to generation by verbal transmission, sruti , only. The beautiful part that it is still sung which perhaps acts as the most reliable tests whereby we could landed upon the hypothesis that the Vedas are worthwhile for study as literature
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Rameshchandra Mukhopadhyaya(b.1947),the author of this book is the grandson of Dr. Benoytosh Bhattacharya, once upon a time Director of Gaekward Oriental Research Institute, Baroda and great grandson of Mahamahopadhyaya Haraprasad Shastri. A triple M.A. Mukhopadhyaya was Reader in English at B.B.College, Asansol. He did his M.Phil In Comparative Literature and he did his Ph.D in Pali literature. He has more than twenty books to his credit and he is one of the soldiers of the avant grade underground Literature Movement in Bengali literature.
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