Import of the Veda has been a matter of great curiosity ever since its inception millennia back, the Vedic seer himself having characterized it as secret words, ninya vacamsi. This curiosity has become all the more enhanced and universalized in the modern times with the failure of science to provide suitable answer to the basic problems of mankind, that is peace, harmony and satisfaction in life. The higher intelligentsia once again, therefore, is turning back to the Veda, the oldest literary heritage of mankind having embedded in it the wisdom of ancient seers and sages supposed to have seen across the total span of the reality. But in the absence of a proper clue to get unfolded this ancient deposit of wisdom, all the expectations from the Veda have remained unfulfilled so far and have got rather blurred by the misinterpretations of the typical modern scholarship in the area.

Vedic Symbolism is not only a befitting answer to all such misrepresentations but also the key to unlocking the secret of the Veda most authoritatively, having been forged out by a seasoned Vedic scholar of the eminence of Prof. S.P. Singh. Here is a tool made available in a profound way to unlock the secret of the Veda at its best to quench the thirst of the inquisitive to know what Veda really is.

The validity of Vedic Symbolism has already been attested and established through its presentation in the Worshops organized successively for two years in December 1998 and 1999 under the aegis of the Maharshi Sandipani Rashtriya Veda Vidya Pratisthan and attended by the select gathering of Professors, Readers, Lecturers and Research Scholars of the Universities of Delhi besides highly knowledgeable persons drawn from other areas of understanding, The Maharshi sandipani Rashtriya Veda Vidya Pratishthan has under taken to publish the work so promptly at the constant insistence of these learned persons.

The Pratisthan would feel gratified only if this latest and most ambitious projection of it gets matching response from the intelligentsia of the country as well as abroad curious to get to the real content of the richest heritage of mankind bequeathed to it by seers who had got so elevated in their consciousness even at that stage of human history as to think of the whole world as a nest, yatra visvam bhavaty ekaneedam, and of all expositions of truth as referent to one and the same Reality, ekam sad vipra bhaudha vadanti.

1.	Necessity of Symbolic Approach to the Veda	1
2.	Yaska's Cognisance of Symbolic Usages in the Veda-I	11
3.	Yaska's Cognistance of Symbolic Usages in the Veda-II	19
4.	Yaska's Cognistance of Symbolic Usages in the Veda-III	31
5.	Yaska's Cognistance of Symbolic Usages in the Veda-IV	41
6.	Lights on Vedic Symbolism shed by the Upanishads	49
7.	Sri Aruobindo's Theory of Vedic Interpretation	57
8.	Sri Aurobindo's Contribution to the Understanding of Vedic Symbholism-I	65
9.	Sri Aurobindo's Contribution to the Understanding of Vedic Symbholism-II	73
10.	Sri Aurobindo's Contribution to the Understanding of Vedic Symbholism-III	81
11.	Sri Aurobindo's Contribution to the Understanding of Vedic Symbholism-IV	89
12.	Cow-I	99
13.	Cow-II	109
14.	Ghrta	117
15.	Bull	127
16.	Horse-I	139
17.	Horse-II	147
18.	Chariot and Wheel-I	159
19.	Chariot and Wheel-II	173
20.	Arati	185
21.	Dasarajna	197
22.	Sarama-Pani Dialogue	209
23.	Path	221
24.	Panis	235
25.	Cave	247
26.	Boat-I	257
27.	Boat-II	265
28.	Symbolic Content of the Gambler's Hymn	273
29.	Carving of the Pasupati Seal of Mohen-jo Daro	285
30.	Philosophical Possibilities of the Veda	297
31.	Initiation and the Sacrificial Post	307
32.	Tapas	317
33.	Spinning and Wearing -I	329
34.	Spinning and Wearing -II	339
35.	Light -I	349
36.	Light -II	359
37.	Light - III	369
38.	Light - IV	379
39.	Sacrifice -I	391
40.	Sacrifice -II	401
41.	Sacrifice -III	411
42.	Sacrifice -IV	419
43.	Sacrifice as a Symbol of Creation	427
44.	Visnu and the Sacrificial Symbolism	437
45.	Horse Sacrifice -I	447
46.	Horse Sacrifice -II	457
47.	Horse Sacrifice -III	465
48.	Vak - I	471
49.	Vak - II	483
50.	Vak - III	493
51.	Sarasvati - I	503
52.	Sarasvati - II	513
53.	Experiential Basis of the Symbolic Representation of Sarasvati	527
54.	pranava - I	539
55.	Pranava - II	549
56.	Pranava -III	559
57.	Pranava - IV	567
58.	Ventures of Angiras - I	577
59.	Ventures of Angiras - II	587
60.	Ventures of Angiras - III	597
61.	Index	605

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