Synopsis The volume presents an English translation, with detailed explanatory notes, of the commentary of Sri Madhvacharya, founder of the Dvaita school of Vedanta, on the first forty hymns of the Rigveda. It presents the original Rigvedic hymns and the bhashya text in Sanskrit and explains how Madhvacharya (thirteenth-fourteenth centuries) brings out the philosophical import of the hymns through his explanations. Madhvacharya's famous commentary offers a philosophical interpretation without rejecting the ritualistic interpretation of the Vedas. The volume examines the influences of Madhvacharya's commentary on other Vedic commentators and the manner in which his concept of parameshvara and his adhyatmika approach are different from those of Sayana in a later commentary.