This excellent volume of great substance represents the sum total of the contributions presented at the three day National Seminar on 'Indian Theories of Hermeneutics organized by the Department of Sanskrit-Sahitya- Sree Sankaracharya University of Sanskrit- Kalady In Jauuary 1999 and such as it is the second grand conference with an international significance and participation of scholars. The deliberations of the conference centred round a most significant and rather neglected field of interpretations of Sanskrit texts whether it be Vedic literature- Scientific literature- Technical literature or Pure literature. The scholars of international reputation have contributed not a little to the field of commentarial aspects of the facts of Indian literature, in the said conference. The papers dealt in the conference include Vedic exegesis- Tantric literature- Philosophy- Literary criticism- Darsanas- Theatre studies- Linguistics- Social sciences- Ecology- Lexicography, Vastu Vidya, Ayurveda- Indian Astronomy- Ancient Indian Jurisprudence etc.