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Synopsis The late V.K. Narayana Bhattathiri was a profound scholar on Vedic lore in all its remifications.  He has traditional anchoring in Vedic studies, which he tried to supplement with his ever-deep explorations of the meaning of the Vedas, grossly neglected in orthodox pedagogical methods.  In one sense the whole thought and work of Bhattathiri was a hermeneutical endeavour.  Broad-minded and humance in his approach, he honestly believed that the Vedas have relevance in the contemporary society as much as they cherished the values of Universal brotherhood.  During the first half of the twentieth century, when conservative ideas on Vedic learning prevailed in Kerala, as elsewhere in India, Bhattathiri strongly advocated the cause of the interpretation of the Vedas maintaining a profound reverance to the Vedas.  He made a pioneering contribution to Vedic literature in Malayalam language.  Bhattathiri introduced an element of his Vedic vision in every single piece of his writings.  He, thereby, upheld the relevance of the Vedas to modern times, as well.  The present book is a collection of sixteen papers on the various aspects of the Vedic lore.