Contents: Preface. I. The Vedic literature: 1. The Rjubhasyam on the Sukla Yajurveda. 2. The Rjubhasyam on the Sukla Yajurveda. 3. Some remarks on Vedic interpretation in the light of the Rjubhasyam. 4. Problems of Vedic interpretation in the light of the Rjubhasyam. 5. The Sukla Yajurveda and science. 6. The aspects of microbiology reflected in the Atharvaveda. 7. Some aspects of Vastusastra, reflected in the Vedas. 8. Aurobindo's Sanskrit commentary on the First Mantra of the Kaivalyopanisad. II. The classical Sanskrit Literature: 9. More light on the contribution of Harikavi from Surat. 10. The Lavanyalahari of Kesavapandita--a less-known Laharikavya. 11. The four stotras of Jagannathakavi from Gujarat. 12. The classical Sanskrit literature and linguistics--retrospect and prospects. 13. Works attributed to Kalidasa. 14. Somaprabhacarya and his contribution. III. Dharmasastra and Puranas: 15. Punishments and penalties in Smrtis. 17. Some less-known Upapurana-texts. 18. The eighteen defects of a speaker--a note on the Markandeyapurana (1.18). 19. Some problems in translating and interpreting the Markandeyapurana. IV. Manuscriptology: 20. A report on the survey of manuscript collections in the Baroda District. 9 Articles are in Hindi.

"The book --Aspects of Indological Studies--incorporating research papers of the author on the subjects like Classical Sanskrit Literature, Dharmasastra, epics and Puranas was published in 2001. It had received over whelming response and great appreciation from the scholars from India and abroad. The outcome of incessant research activities of the author all these years was the accumulation of such published/unpublished/being published research papers, on diverse topics of Indology, resulting in the publication of this volume of Aspects of Manuscript Studies. Most of these research papers are published in the reputed journals and some in the felicitation volumes. The research papers are on the diverse subjects like--Vedic Studies, the classical literature, Dharmasastra, Puranas and Manuscriptology. The novel topics of research namely--articles on Rjubhasyamm, Sukla Yajur-Veda and science, Atharvaveda and Microbiology, the Less-known Sanskrit Scholars, the less-known Upapuranas, the Pauranic interpretations. Some chapters (in Sanskrit) regarding manuscriptology etc., treated for the first time in this book would be found to be interesting and enlightening." (jacket)