Saḍaṅganyāsa
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By Swami Harshananda
Saḍaṅganyāsa literally means ‘the six limbs of the Vedas’.
The Veda is called ‘ṣaḍaṅga’ since it has six subsidiary branches of knowledge. These are the ṣaḍaṅgas or Vedāṅgas.