The reader of this book gets a fair glimpse into the cravings (or philosophical enquiries) of the human spirit through ages; the way such enquiries coursed through historic times in ancient Sumeria, Assyria, Egypt, Greece and Israel and later in Europe and Arabia and found its fulfilment in the long course of the development of Vedic thought in Hinduism, in the north and south of India through successive phases of Vedic, non-Vedic, Puranic and Darsanic thought.
Rambhatla Lakshminarayana Sastry (1908–1995), famous puranic Pundit and Commentator.
Ugrasrava belonged to the Suta caste, who were typically the bards of Puranic literature.
Numerous Puranic literature groups the Yavanas with the Sakas, Kambojas, Pahlavas and Paradas and refers to the peculiar hair styles of these people which were different from those of the Hindus.