On Apr 14, 2005, at 10:13 AM, cardemaister wrote:

> Perhaps a little less "Dravidian" view:
>
> http://www.vedah.com/org/literature/yajurVeda/ashvamedha.asp
>

Aurobindo was one of the first people to try to sanitize the Veda for 
British victorians and puritans. Many traditionalists find him a 
deviation from the true tradition, but as the moralizing and 
restricting quality of British domination penetrated more deeply into 
Indian culture, he found an audience.

It is interesting in how it represents the culmination of medieval 
Vaishnavism overtaking the original traditions and then representing 
that to westerners (primarily Judeo-Christians) as the original or 
"pure" tradition. Vaishnavite deviations of Hinduism are much more 
palatable to westerners.



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