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Vedanganoun
Vedic texts from the fifth and fourth centuries BC dealing with phonetics and ritual injunctions and linguistics and grammar and etymology and lexicography and prosody and astronomy and astrology
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vedanga
Vedanga is a term from Ancient Indian scriptures, referring to a certain group of six disciplines or auxiliary sciences traditionally associated with the study and understanding of the Vedas, the ancient religious texts of Hinduism. These include phonetics (Śikṣā), ritual (Kalpa), grammar (Vyākaraṇa), etymology (Nirukta), metrics (Chandas), and astronomy (Jyotiṣa). These auxiliary fields were considered essential to properly understand and interpret the Vedas.
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Vedanga
The Vedanga are six auxiliary disciplines traditionally associated with the study and understanding of the Vedas. ⁕Shiksha: phonetics, phonology and morphophonology ⁕Kalpa: ritual ⁕Vyakarana: grammar ⁕Nirukta: etymology ⁕Chandas: meter ⁕Jyotisha: astronomy Traditionally, vyākaraṇa and nirukta are common to all four Vedas, while each veda has its own śikṣā, chandas, kalpa and jyotiṣa texts. The Vedangas are first mentioned in the Mundaka Upanishad as subjects for students of the Vedas. Later, they developed into independent disciplines, each with its own corpus of Sutras.
The Nuttall Encyclopedia
Vedanga
one of the six commentaries on the Vedas.
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of vedanga in Chaldean Numerology is: 7
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of vedanga in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9
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