Vedic Physics by Roy, Raja Ram Mohan -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

FOREWORD PREFACE 1. THE VEDIC LEGACY

1.1: The Vedas 1.2: The Vedas and cosmology 1.3: The Indus Valley Civilization and the Mahābhārata war 1.4: The Avestā 1.5: The Brāhmaṇas 1.6: The Āraṇyakas and the Upaniṣads 1.7: The Sūtra literature 1.8: The Vedāṅgas, Pariśiṣṭas and Anukramaṇis 1.9: The Purāṇas 1.10: Meanings of the Vedas 1.11: The dating of Vedas 1.12: Commentators on the Vedas

2. THE TIME BEFORE TIME

2.1: The golden womb 2.2: Water everywhere 2.3: Deluge that never came 2.4: The Creator

3. ALL THIS IS PURUṢA

3.1: The Puruṣa hymn 3.2: Man in the image of God 3.3: Secret of the Unicorn 3.4: Puruṣa sacrifice 3.5: The concept of paradise 3.6: The Prajāpati

4. THE EXPANDING EGG

4.1: The expanding universe 4.2: The birth of gods 4.3: The dead egg 4.4: The Lord of expansion 4.5: Puruṣa and Aditi 4.6: Agastya and Lopāmudra

5. EDGE OF THE UNIVERSE

5.1: Indra and Vṛtra 5.2: Frog who drank all the waters 5.3: Electric force 5.4: Surface tension 5.5: Slaying of Varāha 5.6: Bubbles and voids in space 5.7: Deeds of Indra 5.8: Indra, the Bull 5.9: Mighty Hercules 5.10: Serpent as evil

6. PARALLEL SPACES

6.1: Three spaces 6.2 The steps of Viṣṇu 6.3: The hidden spaces

7. THE SEAT OF IMMORTALITY

7.1: The wedding of Vivasvāna 7.2: The field 7.3: Fabric of the universe 7.4: Heaven and Earth 7.5: The cosmic tree 7.6: The giant tortoise 7.7: The geocentric universe 7.8: Superspace 7.9: Triśirā Viśvarūpa 7.10: The dark matter

8. RETURN OF THE ELEMENTS

8.1: Agni (fire) 8.2: Āpaḥ (water) 8.3: Rudra 8.4: Maruta (wind) 8.5: Saraswatī

9. QUARK CONFINEMENT

9.1: Particle 9.2: Bosons and Fermions 9.3: Once-born and twice-born 9.4: The flying horse 9.5: Animal sacrifice 9.6: Quarks 9.7: The sacred cow

10. MATTER AND ENERGY

10.1: Savitā 10.2: Pūṣā 10.3: Lord of the animals

11. ELECTRON, PROTON AND NEUTRON

11.1: Varuṇa 11.2: Ahuramazdā 11.3: Mitra 11.4: Rise and fall of Mithraism 11.5: Aryamā

12. ELECTRICITY AND MAGNETISM

12.1: Soma 12.2: Indu 12.3: Madhu 12.4: Aśvins

13. LET THERE BE LIGHT 14. THE DANCE OF CREATION

14.1: Uṣā (dawn) 14.2: Nakta (night) 14.3: Lord of the dancers

15. PAIR PRODUCTION

15.1: Matter and anti-matter 15.2: Yama and Yamī 15.3: Saramā and Paṇi

16. THE SEVEN SAGES

16.1: Vasiṣṭha

17. THE GODS GALLERY

17.1: Three-fold division 17.2: Thirty three gods 17.3: The age of Purāṇas 17.4: Incarnations of Viṣṇu 17.5: The legend of Vikramāditya

18: DID BIG BANG HAPPEN?

18.1: The Big Bang Cosmology 18.2: The Steady State Cosmology 18.3: The singularity problem 18.4: The horizon problem 18.5: The flatness problem 18.6: The age problem 18.7: The monopole problem 18.8: The entropy problem 18.9: The antimatter problem

19. THE VEDIC COSMOLOGY

19.1: The cosmic egg 19.2: The chakra of Viṣṇu 19.3: Rotation of the universe 19.4: The universe without singularity 19.5: Conservation of space, matter and energy 19.6: Gamma-ray bursts 19.7: Evolution of the universe 19.8: Trinity 19.9: The horizon problem 19.10: The flatness problem 19.11: The age problem 19.12: The monopole problem 19.13: The entropy problem 19.14: The antimatter problem 19.15: Implications of the Vedic model 19.16: Cyclic cosmology 19.17: Vedic model and other cosmologies

20. THE ASTRONOMICAL CODE SCIENTIFIC GLOSSARY NOTES BIBLIOGRAPHY BACK COVER BLURB