Editor - Dr. Suryakant Bali
The books is a very useful and important addition to traditions of modern Vedic studies undertaken by Indian and Westerners. It is the first ever attempt exercised by the teachers of the University of Delhi to study the various aspects of the Atharvaveda which has not attracted the attaention of the Vedicists to the extent the Rigveda has done. The book comprises scholarly, well-prepared and thoroughly unbiased articles on different aspects of the Atharvaveda, viz., textual, historical and exgetical studies. poetry, sciences, religion and philosophy, society and language. Besides, the value and the significance of the Atharvavedic studies in this book is further enhanced by the long, exhaustive and scholarly introduction by the Editor of the volume which throws entirely fresh light on some very contgroversial yet imposrtant issues related to the Vedic studies in general and the Atharvaveda in particular.