Vasistha’s Dhanurveda Samhita (Sanskrit Text With English Translation)

Description

The present treatise Vasistha’s Dhanurveda Samhita isa faithful rendering of the original composition of sage Vasigtha who had it transmitted through a tradition of sages being traced back to gods Siva and Brahma and described in the Sukraniti as upaveda of the Yajurveda. The entire tradition permeates provocative material with different levels of interests and interpretations. Previously, largely unfamiliar to modern scholarship the subjects delineated here were compulsorily taught to such who wanted to acquire excellence in the skill. This meant laying down of thorough instructions and formularies by other sages like ParaSuréma, Visvamitra, VaiSampayana and Ausdnas whose texts have been recovered in manuscript form from libraries of Tirupati, Nepal Darbar, Asiatic society, Bombay, Deccan College Research Institute, Pune and Oriental library of Baroda.