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David Frawley (or Vmadeva str ) is an American Hindu author, publishing on topics such as
Hinduism, Yoga and Ayurveda. He is the founder and director of the American Institute for Vedic Studies in
Santa Fe, New Mexico, which offers courses on Yoga philosophy, Ayurveda, and Hindu astrology. He is also a
professor of Vedic Astrology and Ayurveda at the Hindu University of America at Orlando, Florida. He is a
Vaidya (Ayurvedic doctor), and a Jyotishi (astrologer).

In publications such as In Search of the Cradle of Civilization (1995), Frawley has also defended theories of
historical revisionism advocating the "Indigenous Aryans" ideology popular in Hindu nationalism.

1 Career
2 Reception
3 Partial bibliography
4 Notes
5 See also
6 References
7 External links

In 2000, his book How I Became a Hindu, Frawley details his move from a Catholic upbringing to embracing
Hinduism. He learned Sanskrit from a Sanskrit grammar book and a copy of the Vedas in around 1970.

According to vedanet.com Frawley received a doctor's degree in Chinese medicine in 1987. He taught Chinese
herbal medicine at the International Institute of Chinese Medicine from 1984-1990.[1]

In 1991, under the auspices of the Hindu teacher Avadhuta Shastri, he was named Vamadeva Shastri, and he
was the first American to receive the title of "Jyotish Kovid" from the Indian Council of Astrological Sciences
(ICAS) in 1993.[2]

Frawley founded and is the director of the "American Institute for Vedic Studies" in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Through his institute, he offers courses on Yoga philosophy, Hindu astrology (jyotisha), and Ayurveda.

He works with multiple Ayurvedic institutions including: The Chopra Wellness Center in San Diego; The
California College of Ayurveda (which he advised Marc Halpern during its formation; The Kripalu school of
Yoga and Ayurveda; The National Ayurvedic Medical Association, which he has sat as advisor on since
2000.;[3] and the California Association of Ayurvedic Medicine (CAAM).[4]

In essays and books such as In Search of the Cradle of Civilization (1995), Frawley endorses the "Indigenous
Aryans" scenario propagated in Hindu nationalism during the 1990s.[5]

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Bryant (2001) commented that Frawley's work is more successful in the popular arena, to which it is directed
and where its impact "is by no means insignificant", rather than in academic study[6] and that "(Frawley) is
committed to channeling a symbolic spiritual paradigm through a critical empirico rational one".[7]

In a series of exchanges published in The Hindu, Michael Witzel rejects Frawley's linking of Vedic literature
with the Harappan civilisation and a claimed lost city in the Gulf of Cambay, as misreading Vedic texts, ignoring
or misunderstanding other evidence and motivated by antiquity frenzy. Witzel argues that Frawley's proposed
"ecological approach" and "innovative theories" of the history of ancient India amount to propagating currently
popular indigenist ideas.[8]

Bruce Lincoln attributes autochthonous ideas such as Frawley's to "parochial nationalism", terming them
"exercises in scholarship ( = myth + footnotes)", where archaeological data spanning several millennia is
selectively invoked, with no textual sources to control the inquiry, in support of the theorists' desired
narrative.[9]

Gods, Sages, and Kings, Lotus Press, Twin Lakes, Wisconsin ISBN 0-910261-37-7
From the River of Heaven, Lotus Press, Twin Lakes, Wisconsin ISBN 0-910261-38-5
Hinduism: The Eternal Tradition (Sanatana Dharma), Voice of India, New Delhi ISBN 81-85990-29-8
The Myth of the Aryan Invasion Theory online book (http://www.tri-murti.com/ancientindia/aryan0.html)
, update (http://www.vedanet.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=56&Itemid=2) ,
article (http://www.hindunet.org/hindu_history/ancient/aryan/aryan_frawley.html)
In Search of the Cradle of Civilization, with Georg Feuerstein, Subhash Kak, 1995; Motilal Banarsidass
Publ., 1999. ISBN 81-208-1626-9.
How I Became a Hindu
The Rig Veda and the History of India ISBN 81-7742-039-9
Hinduism and the Clash of Civilizations.
Yoga and Ayurveda, Lotus Press, Twin Lakes, Wisconsin ISBN 0-914955-81-0
Tantric Yoga, Lotus Press, Twin Lakes, Wisconsin ISBN 0-910261-39-3
Wisdom of the Ancient Seers, Lotus Press, Twin Lakes, Wisconsin ISBN 0-910261-36-9
Oracle of Rama, Lotus Press, Twin Lakes, Wisconsin ISBN 0-910261-35-0
Yoga and the Sacred Fire, Lotus Press, Twin Lakes, Wisconsin ISBN 0-940985-75-6
Ayurvedic Healing, Lotus Press, Twin Lakes, Wisconsin ISBN 0-914955-97-7
Ayurveda and Marma Therapy, (with Ranade and Lele), Lotus Press, Twin Lakes, Wisconsin ISBN
0-940985-59-4
Yoga for Your Type: Ayurvedic Guide to Your Asana Practice, (with Summerfield-Kozak), Lotus Press,
Twin Lakes, Wisconsin ISBN 0-910261-30-X
Ayurveda: Nature's Medicine, (with Ranade), Lotus Press, Twin Lakes, Wisconsin ISBN 0-914955-95-0
Yoga of Herbs: Ayurvedic Guide to Herbal Medicine, (with Lad), Lotus Press, Twin Lakes, Wisconsin
ISBN 0-941524-24-8
Ayurveda and the Mind, Lotus Press, Twin Lakes, Wisconsin ISBN 0-914955-36-5
Astrology of the Seers, Lotus Press, Twin Lakes, Wisconsin ISBN 0-914955-89-6
Ayurvedic Astrology, Lotus Press, Twin Lakes, Wisconsin ISBN 0-940985-88-8

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1. ^ American Institute of Vedic Studies. Accessed July 11, 2008 (http://www.vedanet.com

/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=20&Itemid=99999999&limit=1&limitstart=1)
2. ^ Dr. David Frawley Information (http://www.infobuddhism.com/infobuddhism
/institute%20for%20wholistic%20education/design/frawleybooks.htm) infobuddhism.com. "Vamadeva was one of
the first Americans to receive Jyotish Kovid title from the Indian Council of Astrological Sciences (ICAS, 1993),
the largest Vedic astrology association in the world."American Institute of Vedic Studies. Accessed July 11, 2008
(http://www.vedanet.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=20&Itemid=99999999&limit=1&
limitstart=1)
3. ^ "NAMA (Advisors)" (http://www.ayurveda-nama.org/advisors.php) . National Ayurvedic Medical Association.
http://www.ayurveda-nama.org/advisors.php.
4. ^ "About Dr. David Frawley (Pandit Vamadeva Shastri)" (http://www.vedanet.com
/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=20) . American Institute of Vedic Studies. http://www.vedanet.com
/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=20.
5. ^ Arvidsson 2006:298 Arvidsson, Stefan (2006), Aryan Idols: Indo-European Mythology as Ideology and Science,
translated by Sonia Wichmann, Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press.
6. ^ Edwin Bryant (2001). The Quest for the Origins of Vedic Culture: The Indo-Aryan Migration Debate. Oxford
University Press. pp. 291. ISBN 0-19-513777-9.
7. ^ Edwin Bryant (2001). The Quest for the Origins of Vedic Culture: The Indo-Aryan Migration Debate. Oxford
University Press. pp. 347. ISBN 0-19-513777-9.
8. ^ David Frawley (June 18, 2002). Vedic literature and the Gulf of Cambay discovery (http://www.hinduonnet.com
/thehindu/op/2002/06/18/stories/2002061800030200.htm) . The Hindu. http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu
/op/2002/06/18/stories/2002061800030200.htm; M. Witzel (June 25, 2002). A maritime Rigveda? How not to
read ancient texts (http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/op/2002/06/25/stories/2002062500030200.htm) . The
Hindu. http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/op/2002/06/25/stories/2002062500030200.htm; David Frawley (July
16, 2002). Witzel's vanishing ocean (http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/op/2002/07/16/stories
/2002071600070200.htm) . The Hindu. http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/op/2002/07/16/stories
/2002071600070200.htm; Michael Witzel (August 6, 2002). Philology vanished: Frawley's Rigveda I
(http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/op/2002/08/06/stories/2002080600070200.htm) . The Hindu.
http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/op/2002/08/06/stories/2002080600070200.htm; Michael Witzel (August 13,
2002). Philology vanished: Frawley's Rigveda II (http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/op/2002/08/13/stories
/2002081300020200.htm) . The Hindu. http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/op/2002/08/13/stories
/2002081300020200.htm;David Frawley (August 20, 2002). Witzel's philology (http://www.hinduonnet.com
/thehindu/op/2002/08/20/stories/2002082000120200.htm) . The Hindu. http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu
/op/2002/08/20/stories/2002082000120200.htm.
9. ^ Bruce Lincoln (1999). Theorizing Myth: Narrative, Ideology, and Scholarship. University of Chicago Press.
pp. 215. ISBN 0-226-48201-4.

Voice of India
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Girilal Jain
Archaeoastronomy and Vedic chronology

Arvidsson, Stefan (2006). Aryan Idols: Indo-European Mythology as Ideology and Science. translated by
Sonia Wichmann. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-226-02860-6.
Nussbaum, Martha (2007). The Clash Within: Democracy, Religious Violence, and India's Future.
Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. ISBN 0-674-02482-6.

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US Publisher of books by David Frawley (http://www.lotuspress.com)
Online version of Hinduism and the Clash of Civilizations (http://www.voi.org/books/civilization/)

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