American Research Journal of English and Literature

 Ever since the Anglo-Welsh philologist William Jones introduced Sanskrit to the West two centuries ago, various western scholars have been trying relentlessly to decipher the ancient Vedic texts but with poor results. The inadequacy in their achievements is evident in the scholarly disputes that continuously take place between the fundamentally opposed schools engaged in the interpretation of Vedic texts. There are shortcomings in their methodology because the approach they rely on does not take into account the requirement of preserving authenticity in exploring the semantic relations among the Sanskrit words and phrases in the original Vedic texts. Against this background, this paper attempts to present a semantic approach to decoding Vedic texts, where prominence is accorded to faithful interpretation of the original Sanskrit words and phrases with an emphasis on preserving the accuracy of their contextual meanings. Further, the paper demonstrates how the innermost enigmas in Vedic texts are decrypted.