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Pratishakhya (Sanskrit: प्रातिशाख्य
prātiśākhya), also
known as
Parsada (pārṣada), are Vedic-era
manuals devoted to the
precise and
consistent pronunciation...
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especially the name of a
celebrated Sanskrit grammarian,
author of the Ṛgveda-
Prātiśākhya, the Bṛhaddevatā, the Caraṇa-vyūha, six Anukramaṇīs (indices) to the...
- Taittirīya
Brahmana ('TB'), Taittirīya
Aranyaka ('TA'), and Taittirīya
Pratisakhya ('TP'). The 'Taittiriya Shakha' can be
loosely translated as 'Branch...
- (accent). The
Pratishakhyas are
among the
earlier texts of Shiksha.
Pratiśākhya literally means "
belonging to each śākhā". In the
Rigveda the Pratishakhya...
- Ṛigvedaprātiśākhya (11.36; 14.30) uses the term
Shastra to
refer to the
prātiśākhya tradition. Kātyāyana, Patañjali and Pāṇini's Aṣṭādhyāyī use the term...
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plosives undergo abhinidhāna
according to the
Atharva Veda
Prātiśākhya and the Ṛgveda
Prātiśākhya. The
latter text adds that
final semivowels (excluding r)...
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process being described in the
Pratisakhya) and is the
memorized text used for recitation. The
Padapatha and the
Pratisakhya anchor the text's true meaning...
- (found at the end of compounds)
ending in ā, as
mentioned in the ṛgveda
Prātiśākhya. As a
traditional Hindu unit of time, one kālá
corresponds to 144 seconds...
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corpora of
particular religious or
cultural significance. For example,
Prātiśākhya literature described the
sound patterns of
Sanskrit as
found in the Vedas...
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their Pada-pāṭha. He is
often quoted by Pāṇini and the
writers of the
Prātiśākhya,
treatises on phonetics. His Padapāṭha of the Rig Veda was one of the...
