Vada in Theory and Practice: Studies in Debates, Dialogues and Discussions in Indian Intellectual Discourses c11.s5.7

c11.s5.7

Sixty years after the publication of *Abhijñānaśākuntala* by Jones, Max Müller started publishing *Ṛgveda* with *Sāyaṇa-bhāṣya* in four volumes (1849-75). Both Jones and Max Müller were drawn towards India with their love for Sanskrit and helped to create a romantic image of India in West and also to stimulate the spirit of Renaissance. Both of them could address the mindset of traditional as well as the modern scholars of Sanskrit in India. If the discovery of Śakuntalā by Jones paved the way for neo-romanticism and Renaissance in India and abroad, the publication of Max Müller’s *Ṛgveda* was an event of much more far-reaching consequences. It has been one of the most significant events in the world history of ideas for having initiated a meaningful dialogue between the East and the West.