In the past decade, we have participated in debates about fundamental questions regarding the Vedic and post-Vedic Dharmic writings. A few papers emerging from this churning are presented here. They predominantly focus on the defining concepts of Hindu Dharma: the Gods, Dharma, the Yugas and Cakras, the Tradition and its distortion (the Invented Tradition), and the Calendar. It is our intention to straighten these concepts out where they have been snowed under over the centuries, especially now that interreligious competition has intensified, and a long-besieged Dharma cannot afford distortions and sloppiness anymore.
We dedicate this book to the memory of two leading figures from Banaras Hindu University (BHU): Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya, the founder of BHU and indefatigable builder of Dharmic institutions, whose statue we worshipfully greeted when we arrived there for the first time, in October 1988; and Dr. Mark Dyczkowski, who that same day welcomed us to the conference which he had organized there, and that turned out to be historic: bringing the Trika (or Kasmiri Saivism) philosophy back from the obscurity to which history had relegated it. He passed away just now, on Sarasvati Puja as befits a scholar and vīna-player, and I wish this dedication can contribute to keeping his blessed memory alive.
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