Ecological Readings in the Veda-Marta Vannucci-DKPD-9788124600092
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| The Vedas are
indisputably among the oldest of mankind’s documents. Which Dr. Marta
Vannucci rummages through to address a highly enigmatic question: How man
evolved as Man: thinking, discriminating, thought-communicating? Or, yet more
specifically, how did he come to identify cause-effect relationships of
living-beings: both among themselves and with their environment? In looking
for answers, she discovers profound biological, physiological, and ecological
insights in Vedic writings — which she projects here, with coherent analyses
and prolific textual references. Dr Vannucci, who has studied Indian sacred
texts for about twenty years, is perhaps the first ever biologist to explore
the ecological validity of Vedas. With her critical Florentine mind and
five-decade-long involvement in scientific methodologies, she interprets the
complex Vedic verses in her thematic effort to decipher the ancient “code”
with a “bio-ecological key” -spelling out, contextually, the Matter-Energy
principles (embodied in Lord Agni) and Life-Hope principles (personified by
Lord Savitr). Also setting out a comparative perspective on Vedic expressions
of ecology and its contemporary worldview, the author suggests that the
essential difference between the two stems not from the perception of
reality, but from the manner of their theorizing. It is a painstakingly
documented work, with a large-scale glossary of Sanskrit/ technical words and
extensive bibliographic references. And also a foreword by a cultural scholar
of Dr Kapila Vatsyayan’s eminence. |
| Book |
| ISBN |
9788124606575
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| PUBLISHER |
DKPD |
| Binding |
HARDCOVER |
| Edition |
2013 |
| Language |
ENGLISH |
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Ecological Readings in the Veda-Marta Vannucci-DKPD-9788124600092
