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{{short description|American Hindu teacher}}
{{Infobox person
| name = David Frawley (Vamadeva Shastri)
| image = David Frawley.jpg
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| image_caption = 2007
| birth_place = [[Wisconsin]], United States
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|mf=yes|1950|9|21}}
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| occupation = [[Vedacharya]], Ayurvedic teacher, [[Vedic astrologer]], [[writer]]
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| nationality = American
| spouse = Yogini Shambhavi Chopra
| awards = [[Padma Bhushan]] in 2015
| website = {{URL|http://www.vedanet.com/}}
}}

'''David Frawley''' (born 1950) is an American author, [[Hindu astrology|astrologer]], teacher (''[[acharya]]'') and a proponent of [[Hindutva]].

He has written numerous books on topics spanning the [[Vedas]], [[Hinduism]], [[Yoga]], [[Ayurveda]] and [[Vedic astrology]].<ref>{{cite news |title=David Frawley is the American hippy who became RSS's favourite western intellectual |url=https://theprint.in/opinion/david-frawley-is-the-american-hippy-who-became-rsss-favourite-western-intellectual/150759/ |work=ThePrint }}</ref> His works have been popular among the general public. In 2015 he was honored by the [[Government of India]] with the [[Padma Bhushan]], the third-highest civilian award in India.<ref>{{cite news |title=The unusual story of David Frawley aka Vamadeva Sastri |url=https://www.deccanherald.com/metrolife/spirituality-greater-faith-700336.html |work=Deccan Herald |language=en}}</ref>

A prominent ideologue of the Hindutva movement, he has also been accused of practicing [[historical revisionism]].<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Shrimali|first=Krishna Mohan|title=Writing India's Ancient Past|journal=Indian Historical Review|volume=34|issue=2|pages=171–188|doi=10.1177/037698360703400209|issn=0376-9836|s2cid=140268498}}</ref><ref name=":7" />

== Early life and education ==
David Frawley was born to a Catholic family in [[Wisconsin]] and had nine siblings.<ref name=":6">{{Cite web|url=https://theprint.in/opinion/david-frawley-is-the-american-hippy-who-became-rsss-favourite-western-intellectual/150759/|title=David Frawley is the American hippy who became RSS's favourite western intellectual|last=Bamzai|first=Kaveree|website=ThePrint|language=en-US|access-date=2019-11-22}}</ref> Frawley is largely an autodidact.<ref name=":6" /> He studied Ayur Veda under Dr. B. L. Vashta of [[Mumbai]] for a span of about a decade, and obtained a "Doctor of Oriental Medicine" degree via a correspondence course from the International Institute of Chinese Medicine, Santa Fe, New Mexico,<ref name=":7">{{Cite book|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=M3XBu-vpXgoC|title=Modern and Global Ayurveda: Pluralism and Paradigms|last1=Wujastyk|first1=Dagmar|last2=Smith|first2=Frederick M.|publisher=SUNY Press|isbn=978-0-7914-7816-5|pages=18–20|language=en|chapter=Introduction}}</ref> a school for acupuncture which closed in 2003 due to "administrative and governance irregularities" and financial problems."<ref>Acupuncture Today – October, 2003, Vol. 04, Issue 10, [https://www.acupuncturetoday.com/mpacms/at/article.php?id=28309 International Institute of Chinese Medicine Closes]</ref>

Frawley is the founder and the sole instructor at the American Institute of Vedic Studies at [[Santa Fe, New Mexico]]<ref name=":1">{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-Grpz1tmcSMC|title=The Quest for the Origins of Vedic Culture: The Indo-Aryan Migration Debate|last=Bryant|first=Edwin|publisher=Oxford University Press, USA|isbn=9780195137774|pages=347}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=M3XBu-vpXgoC|title=Modern and Global Ayurveda: Pluralism and Paradigms|last1=Wujastyk|first1=Dagmar|last2=Smith|first2=Frederick M.|publisher=SUNY Press|isbn=978-0-7914-7816-5|pages=133|language=en|chapter=An Overview of the Education and Practice of Global Ayurveda}}</ref> and is a former president of the American Council of Vedic Astrology.<ref name=":3">{{Cite journal|last=Searle-Chatterjee|first=Mary|title='World religions' and 'ethnic groups': do these paradigms lend themselves to the cause of Hindu nationalism?|journal=Ethnic and Racial Studies|volume=23|issue=3|pages=497–515|doi=10.1080/014198700328962|s2cid=145681756|issn=0141-9870}}</ref> He also previously taught Chinese herbal medicine and western herbology.<ref>{{Cite book|author=Michael Tierra|url=https://archive.org/details/planetaryherbolo0000tier|title=Planetary Herbology|publisher=Lotus Press|year=1988|isbn=978-0941524278|editor=David Frawley|url-access=registration}}</ref>

== Views and reception ==

=== Views ===
Frawley rejects the [[Indo-Aryan migration|Indo-Aryan migration theory]] in favor of the [[Indigenous Aryans]] theory, accusing his opponents of having a “European missionary bias”.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Ramaswamy|first=Sumathi|title=Remains of the race: Archaeology, nationalism, and the yearning for civilisation in the Indus valley|journal=The Indian Economic & Social History Review|volume=38|issue=2|pages=105–145|doi=10.1177/001946460103800201|s2cid=145756604|issn=0019-4646}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|chapter-url=https://muse.jhu.edu/chapter/1991533|title=Way Toward Wisdom, The: An Interdisciplinary and Intercultural Introduction to Metaphysics|last=Benedict M. Ashley|first=O. P.|publisher=University of Notre Dame Press|isbn=9780268074692|pages=460|language=en|chapter=Notes}}</ref> In the book ''In Search of the Cradle of Civilization'' (1995), Frawley along with [[Georg Feuerstein]] and [[Subhash Kak]] has rejected the widely supported [[Indo-Aryan migration]], rhetorically calling it the Aryan Invasion Theory, an outdated and inaccurate term, and supported the [[Indigenous Aryans]] theory. Frawley also criticizes the 19th-century [[Racial groups in India (historical definitions)|racial interpretations of Indian prehistory]], and went on to reject the theory of a conflict between invading [[Aryan race|caucasoid Aryans]] and Dravidians.<ref name="autogenerated1">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.</ref>

In the sphere of market-economics, Frawley opposes socialism, stating that such policies have reduced citizens to beggars.<ref name=":5">{{Cite book|url=https://www.questia.com/library/118416236/the-future-of-multicultural-britain-confronting|title=The Future of Multicultural Britain: Confronting the Progressive Dilemma|last=Pathak|first=Pathik|publisher=Edinburgh University Press|year=2008|isbn=9780748635443|pages=73–74, 80|chapter=Saffron Semantics: The Struggle to Define Hindu Nationalism|jstor=10.3366/j.ctt1r27ks|chapter-url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/future-of-multicultural-britain/saffron-semantics-the-struggle-to-define-hindu-nationalism/E60A127EE4A481F142D38D34B1A8FBA8}}</ref> He is a practitioner of Ayurveda,<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Warrier|first=Maya|title=Modern Ayurveda in Transnational Context: Modern Ayurveda in Transnational Context|journal=Religion Compass|volume=5|issue=3|pages=80–93|doi=10.1111/j.1749-8171.2011.00264.x}}</ref> and recommends the practice of ascetic rituals along with moral purification as indispensable parts of the [[Advaita]] tradition.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Lucas|first=Phillip Charles|title=Non-Traditional Modern Advaita Gurus in the West and Their Traditional Modern Advaita Critics|journal=Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions|volume=17|issue=3|pages=6–37|doi=10.1525/nr.2014.17.3.6|issn=1092-6690|jstor=10.1525/nr.2014.17.3.6}}</ref>

===Reception===

====Popular reception====
While being rejected by academia, he has been successful in the popular market; according to Bryant, his works are clearly directed and articulated at such audiences.<ref name=":2">{{Cite book|last=Bryant|first=Edwin|url=https://www.questia.com/read/103786687/in-quest-of-the-origins-of-vedic-culture-the-indo-aryan|title=The Quest for the Origins of Vedic Culture : The Indo-Aryan Migration Debate.|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=9780195169478|pages=291|oclc=697790495}}</ref><ref name=":6" /><ref name=":7" /> He's been a prominent voice in the introduction of Ayurvedic medicine and Vedic astrology among a western, nonmedical trained audience.<ref name=":7"/><ref>{{cite web|last=Journal|first=Yoga|title=Yoga Journal|url=http://www.yogajournal.com/lifestyle/351|access-date=12 April 2013|publisher=Yoga Journal}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|author=Philip Goldberg|url=https://archive.org/details/americanvedafrom00gold|title=American Veda: How Indian Spirituality Changed the West|publisher=Harmony Books|year=2010|isbn=978-0-385-52134-5|pages=[https://archive.org/details/americanvedafrom00gold/page/222 222]–224|url-access=registration}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last1=Anand|first1=Shilpa Nair|title=An Enlightened Path|newspaper=The Hindu|url=http://www.thehindu.com/features/metroplus/society/an-enlightened-path/article5736503.ece}}</ref> According to [[Edwin Bryant (author)|Edwin Bryant]], he is "well-received" by "the Indian community,"<ref name=":1" /> noting that a Westerner rejecting the Aryan Migration Theory has an obvious appeal in India and Frawley (along with [[Koenraad Elst]]) fits in it, perfectly.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Bryant|first=Edwin|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-Grpz1tmcSMC|title=The Quest for the Origins of Vedic Culture: The Indo-Aryan Migration Debate|publisher=Oxford University Press, USA|isbn=9780195137774|pages=292}}</ref> Frawley commands a significant following on Twitter, as well.<ref name=":6" />

==== Academia ====

=====Hindutva=====
He has been described as a prominent figure of the Hindutva movement<ref>{{Cite book|last1=Gilmartin|first1=David|title=Beyond Turk and Hindu: rethinking religious identities in Islamicate South Asia|last2=Lawrence|first2=Bruce B|publisher=India Research Press|isbn=9788187943341|location=New Delhi|language=en|oclc=52254519}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Lal|first=Vinay|title=The Politics of History on the Internet: Cyber-Diasporic Hinduism and the North American Hindu Diaspora|journal=Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational Studies|volume=8|issue=2|pages=137–172|doi=10.1353/dsp.1999.0000|issn=1911-1568|s2cid=144343833}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Tripathi|first=Salil|title=The End of Secularism|journal=Index on Censorship|volume=31|issue=4|pages=160–166|doi=10.1080/03064220208537150|issn=0306-4220|s2cid=146826096}}</ref><ref name=":3" /><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Chaudhuri|first=Arun|title=India, America, and the Nationalist Apocalyptic|journal=CrossCurrents|volume=68|issue=2|pages=216–236|doi=10.1111/cros.12309|s2cid=171592481|issn=0011-1953}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Lal|first=Vinay|title=Asian America.Net : Ethnicity, Nationalism, and Cyberspace|publisher=Routledge|year=2003|isbn=9780203957349|editor-last=Lee|editor-first=Rachel C.|location=New York|chapter=North American Hindus, the Sense of History, and the Politics of Internet Diasporism|editor-last2=Wong|editor-first2=Sau-ling Cynthia|chapter-url=https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9780203957349}}</ref> and numerous scholars have also described him as a Hindutva ideologue and apologist.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Mukta|first=Parita|title=The public face of Hindu nationalism|journal=Ethnic and Racial Studies|volume=23|issue=3|pages=442–466|doi=10.1080/014198700328944|issn=0141-9870|s2cid=144284403}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Koertge.|title=Scientific Values and Civic Virtues.|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=0195172256|oclc=474649157}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Pathak|first=Pathik|url=http://universitypublishingonline.org/edinburgh/ebook.jsf?bid=CBO9780748635467|title=The Future of Multicultural Britain: Confronting the Progressive Dilemma|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=9780748635467|location=Cambridge|language=en|oclc=889952434}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Kuruvachira|first=Jose|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=O2XXAAAAMAAJ|title=Hindu Nationalists of Modern India: A Critical Study of the Intellectual Genealogy of Hindutva|publisher=Rawat Publications|isbn=9788170339953}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Bhatt|first=Chetan|title=Dharmo rakshati rakshitah : Hindutva movements in the UK|journal=Ethnic and Racial Studies|volume=23|issue=3|pages=559–593|doi=10.1080/014198700328999|issn=0141-9870|s2cid=144085595}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Chadha|first=Ashish|title=Conjuring a river, imagining civilisation|journal=Contributions to Indian Sociology|volume=45|issue=1|pages=55–83|doi=10.1177/006996671004500103|issn=0069-9667|s2cid=144701033}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last1=Back|first1=Les|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bp9Ts508_3oC|title=Theories of Race and Racism: A Reader|last2=Solomos|first2=John|last3=Solomos|first3=Professor of Sociology in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Science John|publisher=Psychology Press|isbn=9780415156714}}</ref><ref name=":5" /> He has been widely accused of practicing [[historical revisionism]].<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Shrimali|first=Krishna Mohan|title=Writing India's Ancient Past|journal=Indian Historical Review|volume=34|issue=2|pages=171–188|doi=10.1177/037698360703400209|issn=0376-9836|s2cid=140268498}}</ref><ref name=":7" /> [[Martha Nussbaum]] and others consider him to be the most determined opponent to the theory of [[Indo-Aryan migrations]].<ref>{{Cite book|author=Nussbaum, Martha Craven|title=The Clash Within : Democracy, Religious Violence, and India's Future.|publisher=Harvard University Press|year=2008|isbn=9780674030596|pages=369|oclc=1006798430}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite journal|last=Dhavalikar|first=M. K.|title=Review of THE MYTH OF INDIA; ARYAN INVASION OF INDIA: THE MYTH AND THE TRUTH|journal=Annals of the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute|volume=78|issue=1/4|pages=343–344|issn=0378-1143|jstor=41694966}}</ref>

[[Meera Nanda]] asserts Frawley to be a member of the Hindu far right, who decries Islam and Christianity as religions for the lower intellects<ref>{{Cite journal|last=NANDA|first=MEERA|title=Ideological Convergences: Hindutva and the Norway Massacre|journal=Economic and Political Weekly|volume=46|issue=53|pages=61–68|issn=0012-9976|jstor=23065638}}</ref> and whose works feature a Hindu Supremacist spin.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Nanda|first=Meera|title=Hindu Triumphalism and the Clash of Civilisations|journal=Economic and Political Weekly|volume=44|issue=28|pages=106–114|issn=0012-9976|jstor=40279263}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Nanda|first=Meera|title=The god market : how globalization is making India more Hindu|publisher=Monthly Review Press|isbn=9781583672501|pages=162|oclc=731901376}}</ref> [[Sudeshna Guha]] of [[Cambridge University]] notes him to be a [[sectarian]] non-scholar and as a proponent of a broader scheme for establishing a nationalist history.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Guha|first=Sudeshna|title=Negotiating Evidence: History, Archaeology and the Indus Civilisation|journal=Modern Asian Studies|volume=39|issue=2|pages=399–426|doi=10.1017/S0026749X04001611|issn=0026-749X|jstor=3876625|s2cid=145463239}}</ref> [[Irfan Habib]] rejected considering Frawley as a scholar, and instead, noted him to be a Hindutva pamphleteer, who "telescoped the past to serve the present" and was not minimally suitable of being defined as a scholar, of any kind.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Why Hindutva's foreign-born cheerleaders are so popular - Times of India|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/sunday-times/why-hindutvas-foreign-born-cheerleaders-are-so-popular/articleshow/58085790.cms|access-date=2019-05-31|website=The Times of India}}</ref><ref name=":6" /> Bryant notes him to be an unambiguously pro-Hindu scholar.<ref name=":2" /> [[Peter Heehs]] deems of him to be part of a group of reactionary orientalists, who professed an avid dislike for the Oriental-Marxist school of historiography and hence, chose to rewrite the history of India ''but'' without any training in relevant disciplines; he also accused Frawley of misappropriating Aurobindo's nuanced stance on the [[Indigenous Aryans]] hypothesis.<ref name=":4">{{Cite journal|last=Heehs|first=Peter|title=Shades of Orientalism: Paradoxes and Problems in Indian Historiography|journal=History and Theory|volume=42|issue=2|pages=169–195|doi=10.1111/1468-2303.00238|issn=0018-2656}}</ref>

[[Bruce Lincoln]] attributes Frawley's ideas 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.<ref>{{Cite book|author=Bruce Lincoln|url=https://archive.org/details/theorizingmythna00linc|title=Theorizing Myth: Narrative, Ideology, and Scholarship|publisher=University of Chicago Press|year=1999|isbn=978-0-226-48201-9|page=[https://archive.org/details/theorizingmythna00linc/page/n114 215]|url-access=limited}}</ref> His proposed equivalence of Ayurveda with vedic healing traditions has been rejected by Indologists and [[David Hardiman]] considers Frawley's assertion to be part of a wider Hindu-nationalist quest.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Hardiman|first=David|title=Indian Medical Indigeneity: From Nationalist Assertion to the Global Market|url=http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/2163/1/WRAP_Hardiman_9971617-hi-081009-medical_indigeneity_in_india.pdf|journal=Social History|volume=34|issue=3|pages=263–283|doi=10.1080/03071020902975131|issn=0307-1022|jstor=25594366|s2cid=144288544}}</ref> [[Joseph Alter]] notes that his writings 'play into the politics of nationalism' and remarks of them to be controversial from an academic locus.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Alter|first=Joseph S.|title=Asian Medicine and Globalization|publisher=University of Pennsylvania Press|isbn=9780812205251|pages=156|language=en|chapter=Notes|chapter-url=https://muse.jhu.edu/chapter/795513}}</ref>

===== Book reviews =====
In a review of ''Hymns from the Golden Age: Selected Hymns from the Rig Veda with Yogic Interpretation'' for the ''[[Journal of the American Oriental Society]]'', [[Richard G. Salomon (professor of Asian studies)|Richard G. Salomon]] criticized Frawley's "fanciful" approach to stand in complete contrast to the available linguistic and scholarly evidence, and perpetuated Vedic myths in what seemed to be a bid to attract readers for the recreation of the ancient spiritual kingdom of the Aryans.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Salomon|first=Richard|title=Review of Hymns from the Golden Age: Selected Hymns from the Rig Veda with Yogic Interpretation; Pinnacles of India's Past: Selections from the Rgveda|journal=Journal of the American Oriental Society|volume=109|issue=3|pages=456–457|doi=10.2307/604160|issn=0003-0279|jstor=604160}}</ref>

A review by [[Madhukar Keshav Dhavalikar|M. K. Dhavalikar]] in ''[[Annals of the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute]]'' called ''In Search of the Cradle of Civilization'' a "beautifully printed" contribution that made a strong case for their indigenous theory against the supposed migratory hypotheses but chose to remain silent on certain crucial aspects which need to be convincingly explained.<ref name="dhavalikar96">{{cite journal|author=M. K. Dhavalikar|author-link=Madhukar Keshav Dhavalikar|year=1996|title=Untitled <nowiki>[</nowiki>review of In Search of the Cradle of Civilization: New Light on Ancient India, by Georg Feuerstein, Subhash Kak, & David Frawley<nowiki>]</nowiki>|journal=Annals of the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute|publisher=[[Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute]]|volume=77|issue=1/4|pages=326–327|issn=0378-1143|jstor=41702199}}</ref> [[Prema Kurien]] noted that the book sought to distinguish expatriate Hindu Americans from other minority groups by demonstrating their superior racial and cultural ties with the Europeans.<ref>{{Cite book|author=Kurien, Prema A.|url=https://archive.org/details/placeatmulticult00kuri|title=A place at the multicultural table the development of an American Hinduism|publisher=Rutgers University Press|isbn=9780813540559|pages=[https://archive.org/details/placeatmulticult00kuri/page/n257 242]|oclc=703221465|url-access=limited}}</ref>

[[Madhukar Keshav Dhavalikar|Dhavalikar]] also reviewed ''The Myth of the Aryan Invasion of India'' and found it to be unsupported by archaeological evidence.<ref name=":0" /> [[Irfan Habib]] criticized Frawley's invoking the [[Sarasvati River]] in the book as an assault against common sense.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Habib|first=Irfan|title=Imaging River Sarasvati: A Defence of Commonsense|journal=Social Scientist|volume=29|issue=1/2|pages=46–74|doi=10.2307/3518272|issn=0970-0293|jstor=3518272}}</ref>{{Clarification needed}}
== Honors and influences ==
In 2015, the [[South Indian Education Society]] (SIES) in Mumbai, India, an affiliate of [[Kanchi Kamakoti Peetham]], conferred upon him their special "National Eminence Award" as an “international expert in the fields of Ayurveda, Yoga, and Vedic Astrology.”<ref>{{cite web|url=http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/suresh-prabhu-gets-sies-award-for-national-eminence/articleshow/50327078.cms|title=Suresh Prabhu gets SIES award for national eminence|publisher=Economic Times|access-date=27 Dec 2015}}</ref> On 26 January 2015, the Indian Government honored Frawley with the [[Padma Bhushan]] award.<ref name="pdma">{{cite web|url=http://pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=114952|title=Padma Awards 2015|publisher=Press Information Bureau|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150128022143/http://pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=114952|archive-date=28 January 2015|url-status=dead|access-date=25 January 2015}}</ref>

Referring to his book ''Yoga and Ayurveda'', Frawley is mentioned as one of the main yoga teachers of [[Deepak Chopra]] and [[David Simon (Neurologist)|David Simon]] in their book, the ''Seven Spiritual Laws of Yoga'' (2005).<ref>{{Cite book|title=Seven Spiritual Laws of Yoga|publisher=Wiley|year=2005|isbn=978-0471736271|pages=200|author1=Deepak Chopra |author2=David Simon}}</ref> In 2015, Chopra said of Frawley's book, ''Shiva, the Lord of Yoga'', "Vamadeva Shastri has been a spiritual guide and mentor of mine for several decades. For anyone who is serious about the journey to higher divine consciousness, this book is yet another jewel from him."<ref>{{Cite book|title=Shiva, the Lord of Yoga|publisher=Lotus Press|year=2015|isbn=978-0-9406-7629-9|page=283|author=David Frawley}}</ref>

==Selected publications==

===Hinduism and Indology===
# ''Hymns from the Golden Age: Selected Hymns from the Rig Veda With Yogic Interpretation''. Motilal Banarsidass Publications, 1986. {{ISBN| 8120800729}}.
#''Wisdom of the Ancient Seers: Mantras of the Rig Veda''. Motilal Banarsidass Publishers (Pvt. Ltd), 1999. {{ISBN| 8120811593}}.
# ''Arise Arjuna: Hinduism Resurgent in a New Century''. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2018. {{ISBN| 9388134982}}.
# ''Awaken Bharata: A Call for India’s Rebirth''. Bloomsbury India, 2018. {{ISBN| 9388271009}}.
# ''What Is Hinduism?''. Bloomsbury India, 2018. {{ISBN| 9789388038638}}.
===Yoga, Vedanta and Ayurveda===
# ''Ayurvedic Healing''. Passage Press, 1989. {{ISBN| 1878423002}}.
# ''Ayurveda and the Mind: The Healing of Consciousness''. Motilal Banarsidass Publications, 2005. {{ISBN| 812082010X}}.
====Co-authored====
# ''The Yoga of Herbs: An Ayurvedic Guide to Herbal Medicine''. Motilal Banarsidass Publications, 2004. {{ISBN| 8120820347}}.

==See also==
*[[Dayananda Saraswati (Ärsha Vidya)]]
*[[Voice of India]]
*[[Georg Feuerstein]]

== Notes ==
{{reflist|group=note}}

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
*[http://www.vedanet.com/ David Frawley's homepage]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20160114082811/http://www.hindubooks.org/david_frawley/ Online books by David Frawley]
*[http://www.voi.org/books/civilization/ Online version of Hinduism and the Clash of Civilizations] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190620054429/http://www.voi.org/books/civilization/ }}

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