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Synopsis Dr. Frits Staal, who is an authority of Kerala Vedic ritualistic tradition has written in the introduction of his monumental work, Agni. "If nothing, else, the present publication will show that a great deal of Vedic field work remains to be done before it is too late.  At this point in history, each time one of the older ritualists dies, a portion of three thousand years old tradition irretrievably lost" .  as a matter of fact, the same has been done by Dr. Govindan Namboodiri.  He has attempted in this monograph" to study the ritual tradition of Kerala mainly based on the manuals of the ritualists in the background of the original ritual literature giving due importance to its social bearing.  Thus, there is no exaggeration in the author's statement that "this monograph can be considered as a continuation of what Dr. Staal has done few years back through his monumental work".