The late V.K. Narayana Bhattathiri was a profound scholar on Vedic lore in all its remifications. He has traditional anchoring in Vedic studies, which he tried to supplement with his ever-deep explorations of the meaning of the Vedas, grossly neglected in orthodox pedagogical methods. In one sense the whole thought and work of Bhattathiri was a hermeneutical endeavour. Broad-minded and humance in his approach, he honestly believed that the Vedas ...