Part I: Origins and backgrounds. One or many? ; Geography of the Vedas and their language ; Archaeology and the oral tradition -- Part II: The Vedas. Constructing an edifice ; Civilization and society ; The four Vedas ; Rigveda ; Sāmaveda ; Yajurveda ; Atharvaveda ; Brāhmaṇas and Āraṇyakas ; Upaniṣads -- Part III: Analysing the Vedas. How to discover ; Mantras ; Ritual ; Secrets of the Sadas -- Part IV: What can we learn from the Vedas? Analysis and discovery ; Sūtra: Vedic sciences ; Vedic insights -- Part V: The Vedas and Buddhism. After the Vedas ; Buddhism -- Appendix I: Liu Hui's proof of the theorem of Baudhāyana -- Appendix II: Euclid's proof of the theorem of Baudhāyana

1. Vedas -- Criticism
2. interpretation
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