- Iron Age India. It is
unclear when the list of six
Vedangas were
first conceptualized. The
Vedangas likely developed towards the end of the
Vedic period...
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disciplines in
Hinduism that is
connected with the
study of the Vedas. The
Vedanga Jyotisha is one of the
earliest texts about astronomy within the Vedas...
- The smṛti
literature is a
corpus of
varied texts that includes: the six
Vedāṅgas (the
auxiliary sciences in the Vedas), the
epics (the Mahābhārata and Rāmāyaṇa)...
-
Vedanga Jyotisha (IAST:
Vedāṅga Jyotiṣa), or
Jyotishavedanga (Jyotiṣavedāṅga), is one of
earliest known Indian texts on
astrology (Jyotisha). The extant...
- (Sanskrit: कल्प)
means "proper, fit" and is one of the six
disciplines of the
Vedānga, or
ancillary science connected with the
Vedas – the
scriptures of Hinduism...
- onwards. The Vedas,
Vedic rituals and its
ancillary sciences called the
Vedangas, were part of the
curriculum at
ancient universities such as at Taxila...
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astronomical treatises. The term vedāṅgaśāstrāṇām,
refers to the śāstra of the
Vedāṅgas. The term "śāstra" is
found in Yaska's
Nirukta (1.2, 14),
where the reference...
- "instruction, lesson, learning,
study of skill". It also
refers to one of the six
Vedangas, or
limbs of
Vedic studies, on
phonetics and
phonology in Sanskrit. Shiksha...
-
discussion of
astronomical instruments,
gnomon and clepsydra, is
found in the
Vedangas,
ancient Sanskrit texts. The
gnomon (called Śaṅku, शङ्कु)
found at Jantar...
- 'explanation, analysis', IPA: [ˈʋjaːkɐrɐɳɐ])
refers to one of the six
ancient Vedangas,
ancillary science connected with the Vedas,
which are
scriptures in Hinduism...
