Vedāṅga (English spelling)

Japanese: Vedāṅga(英語表記)Vedanga
Vedāṅga (English spelling)

…An ancient Indian Brahmanic religious rite manual, translated as “ritual sutra.” After the creation of the Vedic scriptures, six supplementary texts called the Vedāṅga were created as guides for understanding and practicing them. The Kalpa-sūtra, which contains all the rules necessary for carrying out the rituals prescribed in the Vedic scriptures, is one of these, and is considered the most important of the six.

From the Dharma Sutra

...It describes the rights and duties of each of the four classes (varnas) that make up Brahmanism society, as well as the norms of life. It is part of the Kalpa Sutra, one of the six Vedāṅga, which were created as supplementary documents to the Vedas, and is translated as the Vedas. It is the earliest document in India that describes law, but it is not a code of law for practical purposes such as trials, but rather a religious document created by various schools that inherited the Vedas as one of the documents that complement the Vedas.

*Some of the glossaries that mention "Vedāṅga" are listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…古代インド,バラモン教の宗教儀礼の綱要書で,〈祭事経〉と訳される。ベーダ聖典の成立後,その理解と実践のための手引書として《ベーダーンガVedāṅga》と称する6種の補助的文献群が成立した。ベーダ聖典に定められた祭式を行うために必要な規則を網羅した《カルパ・スートラ》もその一つで,6種中もっとも重要視されている。…

【ダルマ・スートラ】より

…バラモン教社会を構成する4階級(バルナ)それぞれの権利や義務,および生活の規範などを記したもの。ベーダの補助文献として成立した6種のベーダーンガVedāṅgaの一つである《カルパ・スートラ》の一部分を構成し,〈律法経〉などと訳される。法について述べた文献としてはインドで最初期のものであるが,裁判などの実用的目的のための法典ではなく,ベーダを補完する文献の一つとして,ベーダを継承する諸学派によって作り出された宗教文献である。…

※「Vedāṅga」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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