nirukta
निरुक्त niruktaEtymology; one of the six Vedangas, the discipline that explains the meaning and derivation of Vedic words.
Where this term appears
- Shruti and Smriti: what counts as Hindu scripture? Scriptures
…mriti too: Shiksha (phonetics), Chhanda (meter), Vyakarana (grammar), Nirukta (etymology), Jyotisha (astronomy), and Kalpa (ritual procedure), the technical scaffolding that lets the Veda be recited and used co…
- Devas and Asuras Deities
…h or vital force, which the Brahmanas and Puranas favour, and Yaska's Nirukta already records the a -privative reading as a folk etymology.
- What is a Mantra? Worship
The tradition takes it one step further, into a play on words the grammarians call a nirukta , an interpretive etymology.
- Meaning and the Measure of Time Treatise
This is the territory of nirukta , the etymology Vedanga, the science of meaning.
- The Limbs Treatise
Nirukta , etymology, the recovery of what words mean and where they come from.
- The Mundaka Upanishad: two birds, and the lower knowledge Treatise
…va-veda, Siksha (phonetics), Kalpa (ceremonial), Vyakarana (grammar), Nirukta (etymology), Khandas (metre), Gyotisha (astronomy); but the higher knowledge is that by which the Indestructible (akshara) is appreh…
- The Seers Who Heard Treatise
The grammarian and etymologist Yaska, in his Nirukta (an early work on Vedic word-meaning, usually placed several centuries BCE), preserves a line that became the standard gloss: rishir darshanat , "the rishi i…