Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun vedanga

1 sense of vedanga

Sense 1
Vedanga -- (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 OF=> Vedic literature, Veda -- ((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)