Abstract Vedic cīti-, attested in the Atharvaveda, is argued to be related Av. ṣ̌āitī-, OP šiyāti- ‘happiness’ built PIE *kʷi̯eh₁- ‘to (come to) rest’.

T his journal provides a forum for research on the forefront of mankind's expanding knowledge of the universe. It is devoted to exploration of the unified field of all the laws of nature through the combined approaches of modern science and ancient Vedic science, as brought to light by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. The identification of the unified field by modern physics is only the first glimpse of ...

As Jeffrey Wainwright (2005) notes, “it is apparent that [Geoffrey] Hill’s poetry has always known history very well indeed” (n.p.). Throughout his works, including the Mercian Hymns, historical events and figures play a central role. When references to past make their way into literature, resulting allusions often broaden work’s depth, increasing not just richness of symbolic interpretation bu...