Mundakopanishad : ( 12/12/2012. )

 ============================================================== ============================================================= Tuesday, April 19, 2022. 08:50.PM. Chapter-1. Section-1. Mantram-5. continued ============================================================ Vyakarana is grammar.  There are two types of grammar: classical grammar and Vedic grammar. In Panini's method, both types of grammar are found. Vedic grammar is studied only in advanced stages. Students of Sanskrit usually study only classical works and the well-known Vyakarana. Unless we know the technology of the method by which words are used in the Veda mantras, we will not make any sense out of them, and so Vyakarana, the study of grammar, is necessary. Nirukta is the etymology of the word—how the word has been formed.  Indra, Mitra, Varuna, Agni, and so on—what is actually meant by these words? They have a root. As every word in a language has a root from which it is derived, Vedic words also have a root from which

 ================================================================ =============================================================== Saturday, April 02, 2022. 19:30. Post- 5. ================================================================ Chapter-1. Section-1. Mantram-5.  ============================================================== "Tatrapara Rg-vedo yajur-vedah  sama-vedo'tharva-vedah siksa  kalpo vyakaranam niruktam chando jyotisam-iti,  atha para yaya tad aksaram adhigamyate." (1.1.5).  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Very interesting! It gives a blow at the very root of our imagination that the Vedas are the highest knowledge. The Rigveda Samhitas, and everything connected to the Rigveda, such as the Brahmanas, and the Yajurveda, Samaveda and Atharvaveda, are all lower knowledge only, my dear friend. There are four Vedas. The Rigveda consists of hymns, prayers, mantras. The Yajurveda consists o