• Words for and concepts related to Knowledge in Vedic literature /Sanskrit: Veda, Vidyā, jňāna, kalā etc.
• Contemporary words ‘knowledge’ and ‘skills’, ‘Arts’ as in the university titles; semantic change, ‘academic’ and ‘professional’ ‘education’. Education as HRT Vs Knowledge for Knowledge sake (Liberal Arts view)
• Vedic context of Knowledge and contemporary context of knowledge
• Contemporary studies of Vedic Knowledge; mapping, researching, validation, application etc.

• Oral (memory) sources and written (manuscript and published) sources
• A bird’s eye view of sources: Vedas, Vedāṅgas, Darśanas, Śāstras etc.
• Gathering /figuring out Vedic knowledge in ‘lost’ sources from the available (oral and written) sources

• Mantra, Brāhmaṇa, Āraṇyaka, Upaniṣad (Upaniṣads as part of Brāhmaṇas and Āraṇyakas): Brāhmaṇas and Āraṇyakas as meta-Veda (Veda about Veda) and fountainhead of Mīmāṁsaka, Vedānta and other interpretations of Veda (as the earliest texts of interpretative science)

• Discussion around oral and written

• Discussion around counting Mantras: finite and infinite Vedas; Finiteness or infiniteness of Knowledge or Vedic Texts

3.1. Classification of Vedas: Implications of classification of Vedas for Indic Knowledge Studies

3.2. Vedas as containers of knowledge (contrast to the view as spells for rituals):

• Traditional view as revelation /discovery of fundamental principles underlying later developments; guiding spirit for later developments.
• Modern view (e.g. Arya Samaj Dayananda Saraswati) as a source of all satya-vidyās (true sciences) viewed in the model of modern sciences. Śrī Aurobindo’s view

● Intense mutuality between Vedas and Yajňas
● ‘Use’ of Vedas in Yajňas
● Vedas as motivating factor for Yajňas : Mīmāmsā view;

4.1. ‘Science’ and ‘Technology’ of Yajňa:
● Nature as yajňa (as the life process or processing by Agni in Virāṭpuruṣa’s body;
“yajňena yajňamayajanta devāḥ”), human yajňa as imitation of natural yajňa (“tāni
dharmāṇi prathamānyāsan”)

4.2. Classification of Yajňas:
● Nitya, Naimittika and Kāmya yajňas
● Śāntika (medicinal/healing) and Pauṣṭika (tonic /nourishing) yajňas

• 5.1. Śikṣā:
  Original Context: Protection of Vedic pronunciation
  Contemporary knowledge: Origin of the contemporary phonetics and phonology; study of phonation/articulatory phonetics; origin of Varṇamālā as a scientific table of phonemes in all Indian languages.

• 5.2. Chandas:
  Original Context: Protection of Vedic oral text and its prosody
  Contemporary knowledge: Mathematics; binary number calculations; origin of zero; combinatronics etc.

• 5.3. Vyākaraṇa:
  Original Context: rakṣohāgamalaghvasandehāḥ prayojanam
  Contemporary knowledge: Linguistics; origin of many modern general linguistic notions such as sandhi, internal and external sandhi, morpho-phonemics

• 5.4. Nirukta:

  Original Context: Protection of semantics of Vedas
  Contemporary knowledge: Origin of many contemporary linguistic ideas, etymologies, theories of origin of words from noun and verb roots, multiple interpretations of the same expression, hermeneutics etc.

• 5.5. Kalpa:
  Original Context: Protection of Yajňa procedures
  Contemporary knowledge: Mathematics, particularly geometry etc.

• 5.6. Jyotiṣa:
  Original Context: Protection of space and time knowledge in Vedas
  Contemporary knowledge: Astronomy, meteorology etc.

• 6.1. Mīmāṁsā:
  Original Context: Interpretation of Vedic texts towards Dharma and Karma (Yajňa)
  Contemporary knowledge: Methods of exegesis, interpretative techniques, a certain approach of Vedic linguistics, linguistic cognition, knowledge organization, knowledge management etc.

• 6.2. Vedānta:
  Original Context: Interpretation of Vedic texts towards Brahman and Mokṣa
  Contemporary knowledge: Vedic Psychology

Second Pair:

• 7.1. Nyāya:
  Original context, Contemporary applicability
• 7.2. Vaiśeṣika:
  Original context, Contemporary applicability

Third Pair:

• 7.3. Sāṅkhya:
  Original context, Contemporary applicability
• 7.4. Yoga:
  Original context, Contemporary applicability
• 7.5. Sphoṭa as the 7 th Vaidika-darśana:
• Original context, Contemporary applicability

● Direct knowledge in non-narrative sections
● Direct Knowledge in narrative sections
● Indirect Knowledge in narrative sections (Epics and personalities, environmental understandings etc.)
● “Encyclopaedic Literature” –Northrop Frye
● ‘vyavahāravide’ of Kāvyas (contextual discussions of knowledge aspects)

● Artha-śāstra, Kāma-śāstra, Nāṭya-śāstra, Saṅgīta-śāstra, Alaṅkāra-śāstra, Ayurveda,
Vāstu, Citra-sūtra, Dhanurveda etc.

10.1. Catuṣṣaṣṭi-vidyāsthānas model:

10.2. Three cleansing sciences model:
Ayurveda – body cleansing
Yoga – mind cleansing
Vyākaraṇa – speech cleansing

10.3. Upaniṣadic (ādhyātmika/mokṣa-centric) model: Parāvidyā – aparāvidyā, vidyā-avidyā:

11.1. Subjective Sciences:
11.2. Objective Sciences:
11.3. Knowledge Sciences:
11.4. Contemporary classification: ‘Vedic Sciences’ model:

Scope for research on Vedic Knowledge systems through fieldwork, ethnography and other qualitative research methods