Vedic Studies Abroad Vedic language is the classical language of India and represents a continuous cultural tradition from the ancient times The Vedic language belongs to IndoEuropean language family with an extremely rich and complex grammatical structure and closely related to European languages ie Greek Latin etc During the course of time study of the Vedic and associated literary heritage has been attained focus of the scholars and exemplary work has been done in Vedic studies by both the Indian and Western scholars in some of the Indian and foreign universities and research institutions Study of the Vedas comes under several academic disciplines including Department of Classical Studies Comparative Philology Oriental Studies Asian Studies and South Asian Studies in the countries like Argentina Austria Germany Switzerland Britain France Japan Poland Russia United States Thailand etc A useful summary of Vedic texts and translations can be seen through the works ie Himnos del Rig Veda Buenos Aires Sudamericana Himnos del Atharva Veda Buenos Aires Sudamericana Filosofía de la India Del Veda al Vedanta El sistema Samkhya El mito de la oposición entre pensamiento indio y filosofía occidental Barcelona Kairós El estudio del Rig Veda en Europa Lima Instituto de Lenguas y Culturas Orientales Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos Muerte e inmortalidad en el Rig Veda y en el Atharva Veda in Rev Stromata Año XXXIII Beginninglessness of the Veda and of the Dharma Eternidad del El Vedismo Los Vedas Lo uno como origen de todo El Orden Cósmico in Boletín de la Asociación Española de Orientalistas Madrid and Etudes védiques et pāṇinéennes Lindoaryen du Veda aux temps modernes etc History will ever remember the contribution of some of the western scholars in the areas of Vedic and Classical Sanskrit Studies such as PaulÉmile Dumont Baltimore Paul Tedesco Yale Mark J Dresden Paul Thieme Yale Hartmut Scharfe UCLA Barend van Nooten Berkeleyand later on J Frits Staal Berkeley HannsPeter Schmidt UCLA and Michael Witzel Harvard Fernando Tola and Carmen Otto Böthlingk Jakob Wackernagel Friedrich Stenzler Friedrich Maxmuller HH Wilson WH Whitney Ralph TH Griffith Gerhard Oberhammer Ernst Steinkellner Walter Ruben and FrankRichard Hamm Existence of the study of the Vedic literature can be seen through the associated disciplines and at present there are panel of Universities and research institutions worldwide giving special focus on study of the Vedic and classical Sanskrit Therefore Vedic studies in the contemporary scenario hold its ground and maintains a significant presence Links वदक जवन दषट Prof Dr ShashiPrabha Kumar रस म वदक अधययन और अनसधन शरउदयनरयण सहज वद वदय वदश म ड शररजनदररजनज चतरवद Vedic Studies in GermanyProf Dr ShashiPrabha Kumar