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The Vedas were read by almost every caste in ancient Tamil Nadu. An Indian historian, archaeologist and epigraphist named Ramachandran Nagaswamy mentions that Tamil Nadu was a land of Vedas and a place where everyone knew the Vedas. [227] The Vedas are also considered as a text filled with deep meaning which can be understood only by scholars ...
A widely quoted and often given classical status, anonymous verse in Tamil Saiva Siddhanta expresses the relationship between the Vedas, Agamas, and Tamil literature: [30] The Vedas are the cow; the true agamas are its milk; the Tamil sung by the four [the authors of the first eight books of the Tirumurai, i.e. Tevaram and Tiruvacakam] is its ...
Similarly, the Skandapurana, too, suggests that the puranas are the Fifth Veda, thus giving itself scriptural authority. [1] [7] The Natya Shastra, a text dealing with performative theory, also applies to itself the label of "Fifth Veda" (1.4) although strictly speaking, it is a branch of the Gandharvaveda, an upaveda of the Samaveda (Monier ...
The literature of Kashmir Shaivism is divided under three categories: Agama shastra, Spanda shastra, and Pratyabhijna shastra. [44] In addition to these agamas, Kashmir Shaivism further relies on exegetical work developing Vasugupta 's (850 AD) influential Shiva Sutras that inaugurated the spanda tradition [ 45 ] [ 44 ] and Somananda's (875 ...
Natya shastra Manuscript (with 37 chapters), in Sanskrit (Chapters 31, 32 and 34 missing) Natya Shastra with Commentary of Abhinavagupta, 10th-century commentary, Compiled by M Ramakrishna Kavi, in Sanskrit (Vol. 2 only; the complete work is in 4 vols.) Theatre layout with diagrams according to Natyashastra, Prachi Shah, Bhartiya Drama
In Tamil Nadu, the texts are mainly written in Vatteluttu, [citation needed] which was an abugida script used to write Tamil up until the 12th century CE. The content of the manuscripts is often attributed to the Vedic sage Agastya who is believed to have possessed a highly developed consciousness .
Copy of a royal land grant, recorded on copper plate, made by Chalukya King Tribhuvana Malla Deva in 1083. The Dharmashastras are based on ancient Dharmasūtra texts, which themselves emerged from the literary tradition of the Vedas (Rig, Yajur, Sāma, and Atharva) composed in 2nd millennium BCE to the early centuries of the 1st millennium BCE.
He formed a publishing house called Dakshinaa Publishing house to publish and market books related to Vastu Shastra and architecture. His critically acclaimed book, Building architecture of Sthapatya veda attracted the attention of Scholars, architects and engineers of India and abroad. [9] Building architecture of Stha-patya Veda. Dakshinaa Pub.