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Vedanga

ve·danga

uncommon literary

noun

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

Origin

From Sanskrit वेदाङ्ग (vedāṅga); ultimately from वेद (veda) + अङ्ग (aṅga).

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