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<p>The Vedas over the centuries were interpreted in different forms by different sampradayas mystics legalists and religious reformers. It has been subjected to interpretation and reinterpretation by Vedic scholars such as Adi Shankaracharya Sayanacharya Mahidhara Dayananda Saraswati and so forth. This small volume by Coomaraswamy is a comparative study of the Vedas with other traditions such as Christianity Gnosticism Sumerian Sufi and other religious traditions which is a modern approach adopted for understanding relationships of nonIndian and Indian values. The text follows a pattern comprising verses and the commentaries made by the author. The book contains the selected verses taken from the Rigveda Brhadaranayaka and the Maitri Upanishads written on issues such as cosmogony ontology and teleology. Besides Coomaraswamy offers his commentary based on the philological aspect as the writers of the Vedas did not have previous knowledge of metaphysics but had developed ontological knowledge from the existing Sanskrit sources. About the Author Ananda K. Coomaraswamy (22 August 1877–9 September 1947) is a Ceylonbased metaphysician historian theorist and philosopher of Indian art. He brought the Indian tradition of art into the western world. He was also seen as the bridgemaker between western and Indian art and philosophy as he was much inspired by Hindu and GrecoRoman traditions. His works were influenced by the Traditionalist and Perennial Schools of Philosophy. He authored several books which were based on the traditional arts metaphysics and social criticism. He was also the curator of Indian art at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts.</p>
