84000 Glossary of Terms

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རིག་བྱེད་ཀྱི་ཡན་ལག | Glossary of Terms

  • རིག་བྱེད་ཀྱི་ཡན་ལག

  • rig byed kyi yan lag
  • vedāṅga
  • Term
Publications: 1
  • supplements to the Vedas
  • རིག་བྱེད་ཀྱི་ཡན་ལག
  • rig byed kyi yan lag
  • vedāṅga
Definition in this text:

The name of a group of auxiliary works that supplement the Vedas, usually numerated as six different works on the six subjects of 1. śikṣa (pronunciation and phonetics); 2. chandas (meter); 3. vyākaraṇa (grammar and linguistic analysis); 4. nirukta (explanation of difficult terms); 5. jyotiṣa (astronomy); and 6. kalpa (ceremony) (Monier-Williams 1016.3).

1 Related glossary entries:

རིག་བྱེད།

  • veda
  • all forms of knowledge
  • Veda