This lesson series is currently under construction as we seek to remove errors and update the series. Karen Thomson contributed significantly to an earlier version of this lesson series.

When I first "lit this fire" in the image above, it was the launch of Vedavid just prior to the inclusion of my dissertation "The Developing Terminology for the Self in Vedic India" (defended Spring, 1998). That was the last of several versions of Vedavid until now, dating back to 1996. This picture is of old temple ruins I would walk through while I was in Melkote, India (above Madras), where lies the Academy of Sanskrit Research. Vedavid got me hooked up with them the same way it got me to the Xth World Sanskrit Conference in Bangalore (Jan, 1997, more slides here, and the stuff I presented is here)...

Vedamu.org is primarily designed to give Vedic literature in its entirety as available in Devanagari and Grantha scripts