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Originally published in French, The Civilization in Ancient India by Louis Renou deals with various aspects of polity, life and thought in ancient India. Based mainly on the great body of Indian lore supplemented by the data from epigraphical, literary as well as other sources, this work encapsulates vast information about India's ancient past covering the period up to the middle of the seventh century. In the four preliminary chapters in the first part of the ...
These texts include the Samhita or "collections", generally in verse, which contain more especially hymns, prayers and ritual formulae' the Brahmana or "Brahmanic explanations", theological commentaries on the Samhitas, in prose; the Aranyaka, "forest texts", and Upanishad, commentaries adjoined to the Brahmanas but of a more esoteric character. Finally the Veda is concluded by the Vedanga, "(auxiliary) limbs of the Veda", ...
The Vedic tradition of the Samhitas enshrines the most ancient millenarian concepts, forms, doctrines and images of the living and of the divine of the Indian people in particular, and of the entire Western Indo-European thought and creativity through the common roots of linguistic expression. Vedic studies carried out by Western scholarship in the 19th century thus acquire a historic importance in our century when biospheres of our century when biospheres ...