Volume : VIII, Issue : II, February - 2018

The need for integrated linguistic interpretation of ancient Indian discourses and objects of culture

Dr. Sajan. R

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The possibility for the plurality of interpretations of ideas and concepts in ancient literature, classical darsanas and artistic objects belonging to ancient India becomes clear when they are examined by contemporary seekers having different orientations of intellect and inclination. Some seekers sing in praise of them but others look down upon them. The need of the hour is a balanced, incisive and integrated approach lightened by the insight of scholarship. Conflicting nature of responses should be connected with the absence of the necessary attempt to comprehend the object under study in its totalit. Once the precise significance of concepts maya and objects of art is sought and properly comprehended, totality and wholeness of vision will become clear. Vedic hymns were direct expressions of religious rituals leading to spiritual awareness. Those who sidestep from metaphysical implications and translate concepts and theories literally miss the precise significance. As a consequence, poetic sublimity and spiritual significance of vedic verses were ignored by European scholars who tried to find things of rational interest in them. Composers of vedic verses were seers and thinkers who had access to mystic and hidden truth. Using multi–semanticism of words, languages was handled by vedic sages to represent subtle mystical experience. The ingenious method of using language in vedic hymns made it linguistic representations having perennial freshness and lasting value. Hence, there is the necessity of integrated reading of ancient discourses and artistic objects for the comprehension of the totality existing as the undercurrent of Indian culture.

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Dr.Sajan.R, The need for integrated linguistic interpretation of ancient Indian discourses and objects of culture, INDIAN JOURNAL OF APPLIED RESEARCH : Volume-8 | Issue-2 | February-2018

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