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The Dhaarmik Traditions - Indic Studies Foundation

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<strong>The</strong> Vedangas provide the infrastructure<br />

and disciplines needed to study the Veda<br />

Vyakarana ( the Grammar of Language and<br />

Sanskrit in particular was first codified by<br />

Panini<br />

in his Epoch making work , the<br />

Ashtadhyayi.<br />

We will have more to say about this extraordinary individual later under the topics<br />

of Mathematics and his possible discovery of Zero and the<br />

study of Linguistics. Panini was undoubtedly one of the earliest , if not the first<br />

among all grammarians in the history of the world)<br />

Jyotishi (Astronomy and Astrology)<br />

Nirukta (Etymology and Linguistics)<br />

Shiksha (Phonetics)<br />

Chandas (Meter, chanting of poetry)<br />

KalpaSutra (Ritual procedures)<br />

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