Shiva Dhanur Veda: The Divine Science of the Cosmic Archer
Language: English
Published by Sushil Kumar Sharma, 2026
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- Title
- Shiva Dhanur Veda: The Divine Science of the Cosmic Archer
- Author
- Sharma, Sushil Kumar
- Publisher
- Sushil Kumar Sharma
- Publication year
- 2026
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 13
- 9798235288508
Shiva Dhanur Veda: The Divine Science of the Cosmic Archer by Sushil Kumar Sharma is a landmark scholarly work that recovers, reconstructs, and reanimates one of the most profound and overlooked systems of knowledge in the entire corpus of ancient Indian civilization. The Dhanur Veda, the sacred Upaveda of archery and martial science, is here explored in its deepest Shaivite articulation: as a living tradition attributed to Lord Shiva himself, the Adi Guru who drew the first bow at the beginning of time and whose teachings encompass not merely the technology of weapons but the complete philosophy of human excellence, inner discipline, and spiritual liberation.
Across nine richly developed chapters, the author takes readers on a journey from the mythological origins of the tradition in Shiva's cosmic identity as Nataraja, Mahayogi, and supreme Warrior, through the material science of the bow and arrow, the philosophy of the warrior-self in Shaiva thought, the psycho-physical training disciplines of the ancient dhanurdhara, the extraordinary taxonomy of divine and earthly weapons, the ethical code governing righteous combat, the profound relationship between archery and yoga, the surviving living traditions that carry this knowledge forward today, and finally the astonishing relevance of this ancient science for the twenty-first century human search for purpose, mastery, and meaning.
Drawing on Sanskrit primary sources including the Agni Purana, the Mahabharata, and the Shiva Purana, on the philosophical traditions of Kashmir Shaivism, on archaeological and iconographic evidence, on fieldwork with living practitioners in Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Rajasthan, and the Shaiva ascetic traditions of the Naga Sadhus, and on the best of both Indian and Western Indological scholarship, Sushil Kumar Sharma has produced a work that is simultaneously a rigorous academic contribution and a deeply human, accessible, and spiritually resonant reading experience.
This is a book for the scholar seeking a comprehensive treatment of a neglected dimension of Vedic knowledge, for the practitioner of yoga, martial arts, or Shaiva devotion seeking the philosophical and historical roots of their practice, and for every thoughtful reader drawn to the enduring mystery of how ancient civilizations encoded their deepest wisdom in the disciplined movement of the human body. The Shiva Dhanur Veda does not ask the reader to choose between science and spirit, between history and meaning, between physical mastery and inner transformation. It insists, with the authority of three thousand years of living tradition, that these are not different things at all, that the bow and the meditating spine are the same instrument, and that the arrow released in perfect stillness is nothing less than consciousness itself, returning home.
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