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Description13th-century Niruktam Vedanga 13 Chapters, Yaska, page 1 front, Sanskrit, Devanagari script, Kashmir.jpg |
English: The Vedas are scriptures of Hinduism. They consist of four layers of texts: samhita, brahmana, aranyaka and upanishads. They also have six Vedangas such as above, and appendices to these main layer of Vedic texts. The Vedangas are dated to between 1000 to 600 BCE. Each Vedic layer consists of books.
The corpus of Vedic texts, as well all post-Vedic texts, are generally accepted to have been orally transmitted from generation to generation for over a millennium, till about the start of the common era. In Sanskrit, they were written in many Indic scripts. The scripture was written on palm leaf manuscripts, copied for preservation in Hindu temples and monasteries. Later paper and cloth versions were produced, where the page size was similar to the heritage palm leaf-like long pages. The above image is from Yaska's Nirukta, a text on etymology of Sanskrit words. It is the systematic creation of a glossary and it discusses how to understand archaic, uncommon words in the Vedic literature. The bolded letters are the text, the light diacritics, any colored marks, light dashes, characters and dots over or under the letters are coded markers found in Sanskrit manuscripts for readers and reciters, i.e. dandas separate the words/sentences/verses, avagrahas for various compounds, circles for the galitas, and the particle iti. Manuscript pages in the Hindu traditions (as well as Buddhist and Jain traditions) may also contain colored or light texts on the margins, which may be either corrections to a scribal errors or they are commentaries of the owner or some scholar / citations / reference-by-incorporation of another ancient Hindu scholar's work. Text language: Sanskrit Script: Devanagari The photo above is of a 2D artwork of a text that is over 2,000 years old, from a manuscript that was produced before the 19th-century. Therefore Wikimedia Commons PD-Art licensing guidelines apply. Any rights I have as a photographer is herewith donated to wikimedia commons under CC 4.0 license. |
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