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Rgvedic Deities & Their Iconic Forms
By Jyotsna Chawla
June 1990
Munshiram Publishers
ISBN: 81-215-0082-6 
248 p.
$49.50 Cloth
India's cultural traditions have their origin in diverse sources embedded in the life style of various pre-and proto-historic communities occupying different parts of the sub-continent in the various periods of their existence. Despite high antiquity of several archaeological finds, one has to admit that the earliest recorded references of India's cultural philosophy and ideological concepts are found only in the textual data of Rgveda, which show an already developed stage of thought. The importance of Vedic philosophy and religous concepts especially those defining the form of divinities lies in the fact that they preserve in them the seeds of later Hinduism to a considerable extent.
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