Rati Saxena

The Seeds of the Mind is a journey into the heart of one of the most neglected and misunder-stood texts of ancient Indian literature-the atharvaveda. It tries to establish that the atharvaveda is not merely a mystical or exotic compilation of mantras but, more importantly, a window into a vibrant world of folk beliefs and culture. Without being led by any specific ideology and based purely on close reading of the veda, this analysis gives a vivid picture of our ...