TIRUPATI: Sri Venkateswara Institute of Higher Vedic Studies, a deemed university, has taken up the mammoth task of making Vedas, Vedangas, Puranas and Itihasas, along with related ancient script, ...

Writing in India emerges only in the Mauryan period, 2,300 years ago. It is in the Ashokan edicts that we find the Brahmi script. Vedic hymns and Buddha's lectures, before that, were orally ...