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Vedanga

noun

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

• Instance Hypernyms: ↑Vedic literature, ↑Veda

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\\vāˈdäŋgə\ noun (-s)

Usage: usually capitalized

Etymology: Sanskrit vedāṅga, literally, limb of the Veda, from veda + aṅga limb — more at angle

: any one of six classes of Sanskrit works written in the sutra style including phonetics, meter, grammar, etymology, religious ceremony, and the ritualistic calendar and designed to teach how to recite, understand, and apply Vedic texts

Useful english dictionary. 2012.