history of atharva veda

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Atharva Veda Parampara

 

Sri Adi Sankara Bhagavad Pada established four Peetams

in four places,

 

 

Location Peetam/Mutt Veda Acharya Mahavakya

Puri Jagannath Goverdhan Mutt Rig Sri Padma Pada

Pragnanam Brahma

Sringeri Saradha Mutt Yajur Sri Sureshvar Aham

Brahmasmi

 

Dwaraka Kalika Mutt Sama Sri Hasthamalaka Tatvamasi

 

Badrikaranya Jyothir Mutt Atharva Sri Todakacharya

Ayamatma Brahma

 

 

Adi Sankara installed Sri Toakacharya in Jyothir Mutt

with insturctions to propagate and spread the Atharva

Veda.

 

 

Sri Todakacharya felt that these mantras could very

well be misused if only they got into the hands of bad

and greedy elements.

 

He therefore divided the Atharva Veda in to two parts,

the Brahmana Bhaga and the Mantra Bhaga.

 

Brahmana Bhaga to his disciple and successor in the

mutt.

 

And preached the Mantra Bhaga into the ears of a Cow.

 

The Cow walked on to the house of one Grahasta by name

Sri Somadev and began to recite the Atharva Veda

Mantras preached to her by Sri Todakacharya and

signalled Sri Somadev to follow her.

 

Sri Somadev accordingly followed the Cow and came to

the Ashram of Sri Todakacharya.

 

Sri Todakacharya blessed Somadev, instructed that the

mantras he had heard as recited by the Cow should be

passed on from one person to another by inscription of

the tongue and also prescribed certain severe tests to

be made in the process.

 

It was also prescribed that once it is passed on to a

disciple, the Guru shall die on the eleventh day.

 

Thus passed the Atharva Veda Mantra Bhaga from one

Grahasta to another and lastly to Sri Vasudeva Bhat in

Ujjain.

 

Sri Ramakrishnananda Saraswathi Swamigal met Sri

Vasudeva Bhatt in Ujjain and conveyed to him his

Guru’s wishes that the Atharva Veda Mantra Sastra

should be imparted to him.

 

Sri Vasudeva Bhat readily agreed. After successfully

passing through all the rigorous tests imposed by the

master Sri Swamigal duly received the upadesa.

 

First time in history after Sri.Todakacharya, the

Atharva Veda Mantra Sastra came back to be possessed

by another Sanyasi.

 

Our Holiness (thus) combines in Him the knowledge of

both Sri Vidya and Atharva Veda Mantra Sastra .

 

 

Site : www.atharvavedapeetam.org

 

Email: atharva_svp,

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