VEDANGA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Vedanga mean? 

• VEDANGA (noun)
  The noun VEDANGA has 1 sense:

1. 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

  Familiarity information: VEDANGA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• VEDANGA (noun)

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Meaning:

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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Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Instance hypernyms:

Veda; Vedic literature ((from the Sanskrit word for 'knowledge') any of the most ancient sacred writings of Hinduism written in early Sanskrit; traditionally believed to comprise the Samhitas, the Brahmanas, the Aranyakas, and the Upanishads)