Dr. Frits Staal, who is an authority of Kerala Vedic ritualistic tradition has written in the introduction of his monumental work, Agni. "If nothing, else, the present publication will show that a great deal of Vedic field work remains to be done before it is too late. At this point in history, each time one of the older ritualists dies, a portion of three thousand years old tradition irretrievably lost" . as a matter of fact, the same has ...
