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Bryant has published seven books and authored a number of articles on Vedic history, yoga, and Krishna-bhakti tradition. He is an expert on Krishna tradition [5] and has translated the story of Krishna from the Sanskrit Bhagavata Purana. [6] Edwin F. Bryant, The Quest for the Origins of Vedic Culture: The Indo-Aryan Migration Debate. — Oxford ...
The Quest for the Origins of Vedic Culture. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-513777-9. Chakrabarti, D.K. 1968. The Aryan hypothesis in Indian archaeology. Indian Studies Past and Present 4, 333–358. Jim Shaffer. 1984. The Indo-Aryan Invasions: Cultural Myth and Archaeological Reality. In: J.R. Lukak. The People of South Asia. New York ...
Bryant, Edwin (2001). The Quest for the Origins of Vedic Culture.Oxford University Press. Witzel, Michael (1999). "The Pleiades and the Bears viewed from inside the Vedic texts".
The historical Vedic religion, also called Vedicism or Vedism, and sometimes ancient Hinduism or Vedic Hinduism, [a] constituted the religious ideas and practices prevalent amongst some of the Indo-Aryan peoples of the northwest Indian subcontinent (Punjab and the western Ganges plain) during the Vedic period (c. 1500–500 BCE).
The Vedic period, or the Vedic age (c. 1500 – c. 500 BCE), is the period in the late Bronze Age and early Iron Age of the history of India when the Vedic literature, including the Vedas (c. 1500 –900 BCE), was composed in the northern Indian subcontinent, between the end of the urban Indus Valley Civilisation and a second urbanisation, which began in the central Indo-Gangetic Plain c. 600 BCE.
Vedic religion, which placed a lot of importance on the system of ritual correctness, arose out of the culture of the erstwhile Kuru and Panchala realms. while the Śramaṇa tradition, which placed emphasis on the spiritual works, [6] that developed in Greater Magadha, later to gave rise to non-Vedic (non-Brahmanical) religions such as ...
The Quest for the Origins of Vedic Culture: The Indo-Aryan Migration Debate. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780195137774. Cooke, Roger (2005) [First published 1997]. The History of Mathematics: A Brief Course. Wiley-Interscience. ISBN 0-471-44459-6. Datta, Bibhutibhushan (1932). The Science of the Sulba. A study in early Hindu geometry.
He studied at length the various Vedic recensions (śākhā) [17] and their importance for the geographical spread of Vedic culture across North India and beyond. [18] This resulted in book-length investigations of Vedic dialects (1989), the development of the Vedic canon (1997), [ 19 ] and of Old India as such (2003, reprint 2010).