Dhanurveda, the standard work on Vedic military science being lost, the dissertations on the science found in the Mahabharata, the Agni Purana, Akasa Bhairava Tantra, Kautalya Arthasastra, Manusmrti, and other small works on Dhanurveda like Ausanas Dhanurveda, Vasistha Dhanurveda, Sadasiva Dhanurveda and Niti Prakasika are the only source of information on the subject left to us.
The present work takes into account all the data available with the present author in fragment form or manuscript form or the published form of various treatises of Dhanurveda, so that a factual and actual picture of military science or the science of warfare in ancient India may be drawn for the modern day readers and researchers.
The present work also contains the English Translation of the Vasistha and Sadasiva Dhanurvedas as appendix 1 & 2 with illustrations wherever necessary.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Ravi Prakash Arya
Dr. Ravi Prakash Arya is World renowned Vedic Scholar, Philologist, and Historian. He is a prolific speaker and writer. He is widely travelled scholar who has delivered more than 150 popular and academic talks on various topics of Vedas, Indian History, Linguistics, Philosophy, Culture and Scientific Indian heritage in various countries of the world. He has delivered more than a dozen Radio and TV Talks in Bharata, Canada, USA, Trinidad, Surinam and British Guyana. He has participated in more than 50 National and International Conferences and Seminars in India and Abroad. He is doing a pioneering work for preserving and propagating the universal and scientific Vedic heritage of India under the auspices of Indian Foundation for Vedic science'. He has so far produced around 60 research papers and 27 books running into 36 volumes on the various aspects of Vedas, Indian History and Culture. He is also editing for the last seven years a quarterly Research Journal 'Vedic Science' dealing with the scientific interpretation of Vedas and Allied literature and ancient Indian traditions. This Journal is circulated around 30 countries of the world. He is also the editor of annual 'World Vedic Calendar' circulated around 10 countries of the world.
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