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Manohar Publishers & Distributors On the Interpretation of Some Doubtful Words in the Atharvaveda and Other Essays by Tarapada Chowdhury
Counted among the foremost vedic scholars and philologists of his time, Tarapada Chowdhury taught Sanskrit at Patna University for close to a quarter of a century. This volume presents his landmark treatise On the Interpretation of Some Doubtful Words in the Atharvaveda, first published in 1931, along with six other classic essays on the Vedas, Ramayana, Linguistics of Bengali and the poetics of Kalidasa: Theism in yurveda (1934); The Vedas and Ramayana first published in History of Philosophy: Eastern and Western edited by S. Radhakrishnan (1952); The Undistras: A Review (1936); Some Phonetic Peculiarities of the Bengali Dialect of Manbhum (1951) and LinguisticAberrationsinKlidsasWritings(1951). The volume will be of immense interest to scholars of Sanskrit, Vediclinguistics,KalidasaandHinduphilosophy.About the AuthorTarapada Chowdhury (1906-59) M.A., B.L., Ph.D (London) was Head of Department Sanskrit, Patna College, Patna University. He alsotaught Linguistics, German, French and Bengali at the University. Among his major works is Undistrani (1940), Avyayaviveka (1946), and the critical editions of aiiriya-iks (1935); Paryyaratnaml (1946)andParyyamuktvali(1946).**Contents and Sample Pages**