As a deity name
Name 772 of the Ganesha Sahasranāma — Ganesha Purana (Upasana Khanda), as taught by Sage Vyasa / Lord Ganesha
Name 130 of the Vishnu Sahasranāma — Mahabharata (Anushasana Parva), as taught by Bhishma to Yudhishthira on his deathbed
As a Hindi name
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As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
‘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 enumer…
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vedāṅga See below.
vedāṅga 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 Sūtra 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 See prātiśākhya] : 2. chandas, ‘metre’ [represented by a treatise ascribed to Piṅgala-nāga, which, however, treats of Prākṛt as well as Sanskṛt metres, and includes only a few of the leading Vedic metres] : 3. vyākaraṇa, ‘linguistic analysis or grammar’ [represented by Pāṇini's celebrated Sūtras] : 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 Vedāṅgas 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 Vedāṅgas 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.
vedāṅga m. (-ṅgaḥ) A sacred science, considered as subordinate to, and in some sense, a part of the Vedas: six sciences come under this denomination; Śīkṣā, or the science of pronunciation and articulation; Kalpa the detail of religious ceremonies; Vyākaraṇa, or grammar; Candas, prosody; Jyotiṣ, or astronomy; and Nirukti, or the explanation of the difficult or obscure words and phrases that occur in the Vedas. E. veda the Vedas, and aṅga a member.
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