vedanga
वेदाङ्ग vedāṅgaThe six 'limbs of the Veda', auxiliary sciences that preserve and apply it: Shiksha (phonetics), Chandas (metre), Vyakarana (grammar), Nirukta (etymology), Kalpa (ritual) and Jyotisha (astronomy/timekeeping).
Where this term appears
- Shruti and Smriti: what counts as Hindu scripture? Scriptures
The Vedangas , the six auxiliary disciplines, are smriti too: Shiksha (phonetics), Chhanda (meter), Vyakarana (grammar), Nirukta (etymology), Jyotisha (astronomy), and Kalpa (ritual procedure), the technical sc…
- What is Jyotisha? Scriptures
It is one of the six Vedangas , the limbs of the Veda: phonetics, metre, grammar, etymology, ritual, and jyotisha.
- How the Vedas Were Preserved History
…steady, and preserved as a set of disciplines the tradition calls the Vedangas , the "limbs of the Veda." Two of these limbs are, in effect, the world's earliest surviving work in phonetics and linguistics.
- The Navagraha: The Nine Planetary Powers Deities
The oldest astronomical text of the tradition, the Vedanga Jyotisha , tracks only the Sun and the Moon.
- Against the Page Treatise
This is where the recitation apparatus comes in, the body of techniques that the tradition gathered under shiksha , the Vedanga concerned with phonetics and pronunciation.
- Keeping the Sound Treatise
Two of the six Vedangas, the limbs of the Veda introduced in the previous chapter, exist to guard one thing: the sound.
- Meaning and the Measure of Time Treatise
This is the territory of nirukta , the etymology Vedanga, the science of meaning.
- The Limbs Treatise
… name that makes them sound like parts of a living thing. The name is vedanga , a limb of the Veda.