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
…rāparā ṛgvedo yajurvedaḥ sāmavedo ’tharvavedaḥ śikṣā kalpo vyākaraṇaṃ niruktaṃ chando jyotiṣam iti atha parā yayā tad akṣaram adhigamyate "The lower knowledge is the Rig-veda, Yagur-veda, Sama-veda, Atharva-ved…
- 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…