वेदाङ्ग — {vedâṅga} See below
वेदाङ्ग — {vedâṅga} n. 'a limb (for preserving the body) of the Veda', N. of certain works or classes of works regarded as auxiliary to and even in some sense as part of the Veda, (six are usually enumerated {and mostly written in the ṣūtra or aphoristic style}##1. {śikṣā}, 'the science of proper articulation and pronunciation', comprising the knowledge of letters, accents, quantity, the use of the organs of pronunciation, and phonetics generally, but especially the laws of euphony peculiar to the Veda [many short treatises and a chapter of the Taittirīya-āraṇyaka are regarded as the representatives of this subject##but other works on Vedic phonetics may be included under it, {prātiśākhya}]: 2. {chandas}, 'metre' [represented by a treatise ascribed to Piṅgala-nāga, which, however, treats of Prākṛit as well as Saṃskṛit metres, and includes only a few of the leading Vedic metres]: 3. {vyākaraṇa}, 'linguistic analysis or grammar {represented by Pāṇini's celebrated ṣūtras}: 4. {nirukta}, 'explanation of difficult Vedic words' [cf. {yāska}]: 5. {jyotiṣa}, 'astronomy', or rather the Vedic calendar [represented by a small tract, the object of which is to fix the most auspicious days for sacrifices]: 6. {kalpa}, 'ceremonial', represented by a large number of Sūtra works [cf. {sūtra}]: the first and second of these Vedâṅgas are said to be intended to secure the correct reading or recitation of the Veda, the third and fourth the understanding of it, and the fifth and sixth its proper employment at sacrifices: the Vedâṅgas are alluded to by Manu, who calls them, in iii, 184, Pravacanas, 'expositions', a term which is said to be also applied to the Brāhmaṇas) IW. 145 &c
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