Rigvedadi Bhashya Bhumika (also known as Introduction to Vedas) is a book originally written in

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Dayanand Saraswati Dayanand Saraswati () born Mool Shankar Tiwari (12 February 1824 – 30 October 1883), was a Hindu philosopher, social leader and founder of the Arya Samaj, a reform movement of Hinduism. His book '' Satyarth Prakash'' has remained one of th ...

, a nineteenth-century social reformer and religious leader in India. His other notable book was ''

Satyarth Prakash ''Satyarth Prakash'' (; '; ) is an 1875 book written originally in Hindi by Dayanand Saraswati, a religious and social reformer and the founder of Arya Samaj. The book was subsequently revised by Saraswati in 1882 and has been translated into mo ...

''.

Purpose

The book was written with the purpose of introducing teachings of the

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s, an ancient scripture related to

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, to a lay audience. Saraswati believed that various misconceptions had been created by interpretations of the Vedas propagated by scholars such as Sayana, Mahidhara, Ralph T.H. Griffith, and

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References

{{reflist Books about Hinduism