CONTENTS:-
Part I: THE Vedas REFLECT ON THEMSELVES:
1. The Mastery of Speech, Canonicity and Control in the Vedas.
2. Veda in the Brahmanas, Cosmogonic Paradigms and the Delimitation of Canon.
3. The Veda and The Authority of Class, Reduplicating Structures of Veda and Varna in Ancient Indian Texts.
Part II: THE VEDAS IN Classical DISCOURSE
4. Puranaveda.
5. From Anxiety to Bliss,Argument, Care, and Responsibility in the, Vedanta Reading of Taittiriya 2.1-6a.
6. "Whither the Thick Sweetness of Their Passion?' the Search for Vedic Origins of Sanskrit Drama.
Part III: THE VEDAS IN Modernity AND BEYOND:
7. The Authority Of An Absent Text, The Veda, Upangas, Upavedas, and Upnekhata in European Thought.
8. From Interpretation to Reform Dayanand's Reading of the Vedas.
9. Redefining The Authority Of Scripture, The Rejection of Vedic Infallibility by the Brahmo Samaj.
10. Poets and Fishes, Modern Indian Interpretations of the Vedic Rishi.
