Music in the Vedas - Its Magico Religious Significance (An Old and Rare Book)

In this book an attempt is made to study the vedic music as a magico religious phenomenon. Music is believed to be either a power-sub stance or a means to please the gods. Music can attract gods and make them do according to the desires of musicians or it can please gods and then the gods will grant the desired results to the musicians. A musician can get the desired results with the help of music without the help of gods also. Music is useful in order to get rain, food, cattle, long life, progeny, victory in the battles etc. It can be useful to kill the enemies black-magically. The vedic musical instruments also are supposed to be useful in order to get these results.

Ganesh Umakant Thite (born in Pune, on 2.5.1944) was educated in Tilak Maharashtra Vidyapeeth and University of Poona. He has been teaching and working as a research scholar in the Department of San skrit, University of Poona, since 1979. He has to his credit the fol lowing works: Sacrifice in the Brahmana texts, Pune, 1975; Car vāka-Samīkṣā (ed.),Pune, 1978; Yajña-asaya ani avişkāra (ed.), Pune, 1979; Medicine: Its magico-reli gious aspects, Pune, 1981. More than 100 of his articles have been pub lished in national and international journals of repute.

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