Weekly page from Hindu Dharma: Sadanga : Introductory Discourse. The Six Limbs of the Vedas

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This week's page from Hindu Dharma is "Sadanga : Introductory Discourse. The Six Limbs of the Vedas" from "The Vedas" at http://www.kamakoti.org/hindudharma/part5/chap43.htm, which is attached with this email. Here are the first few lines from this page:

Among the basic texts of Hinduism, the six Angas or limbs of the Vedas are next in importance to the Vedas themselves. The Vedapurusa has six limbs or parts- mouth, nose, eye, ear, hand, foot. These are called 'Sadanga'. The Tamil term 'cadangu' denoting any ceremony is derived from this word. The Tamil Tevaram refers to Sadanga in this line, 'Vedamo(du) aru angam ayinan. '... (see attachment for more)

 

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Hindu Dharma is a translation of two volumes of the well known Tamil Book "Deivatthin Kural", which, in turn, is a book of 6 volumes that contains talks of His Holiness Sri Chandrasekharendra Saraswathi Mahaswamiji of Kanchipuram. The entire book is available online at www.kamakoti.org .