MAyA in the RgVeda: Books, Text and Audio sites

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--- "V. Krishnamurthy" <profvk wrote:

> Ifound that the

> Sanskrit documents site was not very useful, but the

> following was

> very easy and more organised:

> http://www.intratext.com/ixt/SAN0010/_index.htm

 

Namaste Professor and others,

 

I had intended posting this on Monday but Professor Krishnamurthy's recommended

site has been added to my list below. The main site that I will direct people

to, for the study of the RgVeda, is www.flaez.ch

 

If you have not known of this site before then you are in for a treat.

I did not want to frighten people away with too much transliterated Sanskrit

early on but there will be an abundance later.

 

So here is my list of recommended books, text and audio sites that you may like

to visit at your leisure.

 

Websites

www.flaez.ch

This is our main reference site for this project

http://www.kamakoti.org/hindudharma/part5/chap7.htm

This is the page on sound of the Vedas and on the importance of hearing that

sound correctly. There are others in the book for you to search out. Useful

introduction to the Vedangas also in the book.

http://www.vedanet.com/resources_vedas.htm

http://www.intratext.com/ixt/SAN0010/_index.htm

http://www.aryasamajjamnagar.org/rugveda/rugveda.htm

http://www.thevedicfoundation.org/authentic_hinduism/bhartiya_scriptures.htm

http://vedavid.org/port.html

full of information and good fun to navigate

www.hindunet.org/vedas/rigveda

www.himalayanacademy.com/books/vedic-experience

(this is the Pannikar book, see above. Please note that the hyphen above should

be underscore…_ not -)

www.srivaishnava.org/scripts/veda/rv

www.ms.uky.ed/~sohum/sanskrit/rigveda

www.titus.uni-frankfurt.de/texte/etcs/ind/aind/ved

www.sacred-texts.com/index

www.hindunet.org/vedas/rigveda/ss/rigveda

 

 

Audio Sites

 

http://www.vedamantram.com/

http://www.vedah.com/org/audioVis/selectionsRV/indra.asp

Listen to Mandala 1 Sukta 32 Indra overcoming Vrtra among other RgVedic hymns.

This should be a must visit for anyone interested in this topic

http://www.vedah.com/vedah/audio/aud_ind.htm

http://sanskrit.safire.com/Audio.html

http://sarasvati.tripod.com/veda.htm

http://www.yoga-vidya.de/Versand/mantras_co.html

http://www.musicindiaonline.com/music/l/02000H00

http://www.isnm.uni-luebeck.de/~rvallapu/vedas/vedas

This is a vast collection. (56 hours of chanting)

http://www.saibabafilms.com/

Scroll down to hear a Hymn of Creation in a bit of a jumbled English composition

(definitely paurusheya not apaurusheya) but the Sanskrit is nice. Not really to

be of great relevance to our project but it might be of use to someone

somewhere. Hope my reservations do not upset any Sai Baba Devotees.

http://www.prapatti.com/slokas/mp3.html

This is just a bonus site for visiting this topic

 

 

Books

‘The Doctrine of Maya in the Philosophy of Vedanta’ P D Shastri Luzac and Co.

1911

‘RgVeda Darshana’ S K Ramachandra Rao Kalpatharu Research Academy 2001

This is a several volume series dealing with specific themes in each volume but

with some overlapping.

‘The Cultural Heritage of India’ Volume 1. ‘The Early Phases’ Ramakrishna

Mission 1937

‘Hymn to the Mystic Fire’ and ‘The Secret of the Veda’ Sri Aurobindu Sri

Aurobindu Ashram 1946

‘Rgvedic Aesthetics’ P.S. Shastry Bharatiya Vidya Prakasha 1988

this is a work concentrating upon the poetry and beauty in the RgVeda

‘The Vision of the Vedic Poets’ J Gonda Mouton & Co 1963

‘Four Studies in the Language of the Veda’ J Gonda Mouton & Co 1959

Gonda is a scholar and a linguist but in spite of this he also has moments of

great insight. Hence it is worth persevering with his academic presentation……he

quotes from works in many languages and does not translate. I have one wonderful

example where on two adjacent pages there are paragraphs in English, Sanskrit,

Greek, Latin, French and German, all without translations as he expects his

readers do some work.

‘The Heart of the RgVeda’ Mahuli R Gopalacharya Somaiya Pub. 1971

‘Vedic experience’ Raimundo Pannikar Motilal Banarsidass 1977

Some of you will know of this mystic who combines the roles of Christian priest

and Vedic scholar. Although his efforts to fit, in this book, the Christian

mystical teachings into the Vedic, can place a layer of interpretation over the

Vedas it is a valuable source book in its respect for the sanctity of the Vedas.

‘Maya in Shankara; Measuring the Immeasurable.’ L.Thomas O’Neil Motilal

Banarsidass 1980

This has an early chapter on the Vedas and later chapters on language return to

the Vedas.

‘The Concept of Maya from the Vedas to the 20th Century’ Ruth Reyna Asian

Publishing House 1962

‘Four Dimensional Man: Meditations through the RgVeda’ Antonio T de Nicolas

Nicholas Hays 1976

This is a very interesting personal view of the role of language in spirituality

and the Vedas which brings in some early work on quantum theory. The author

contributes to the : Abhinavagupta and often gets into discussion

with Professor Loganathan on that site…it is best to just sit back and watch the

mails appear.

 

I can mail copies of the following if anyone wishes to contact me.

‘Vedic Hinduism’ S W Jamisson and M Witzel 1992

This is an academic paper downloaded from the internet.

‘Rgveda Interpretation’ Poorna Pragnya

Downloaded from the internet

 

 

 

 

 

 

‘From this Supreme Self are all these, indeed, breathed forth.’

 

 

 

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