On the Interpretation of Some Doubtful Words in the Atharvaveda and Other Essays

ISBN-13: 9789388540926 / Angielski / Twarda / 2025 / 200 str.

Tarapada Chowdhury

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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 ?yurveda’ (1934); ‘The Vedas’ and ‘Ramayana’ first published in <>History of Philosophy: Eastern and Western edited by S. Radhakrishnan (1952); The Un?dis?tras: A Review (1936); Some Phonetic Peculiarities of the Bengali Dialect of Manbhum (1951) and Linguistic?Aberrations?in?K?lid?sa’s?Writings?(1951).

The volume will be of immense interest to scholars of Sanskrit, Vedic?linguistics,?Kalidasa?and?Hindu?philosophy.