| 11. | Other genres include Vedas, Upanishads, Vedangas, Itihasa, Puranas, Bhasyas, and Subhashitas.
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| 12. | Vedanga Jyotisha describes rules for tracking the motions of the Sun and the Moon for the purposes of ritual.
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| 13. | This led to the formation of Vedic Supplements called the Vedangas which literally means limbs of the Veda.
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| 14. | The Vedangas were sciences that focused on helping understand and interpret the Vedas that had been composed many centuries earlier.
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| 15. | The next oldest commentary on MadhwaVijaya is by Sri Vedanga Tirtha, one of the saints of the Sode Mutt.
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| 16. | A larger collection of ancient sutra literature in Hinduism corresponds to the six Vedangas, or six limbs of the Vedas.
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| 17. | The Kalpa Vedanga studies, for example, gave rise to the Dharma-sutras, which later expanded into Dharma-shastras.
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| 18. | The text relies on other " Smritis ", such as the Vedangas, Itihasa, Dharmasastras, Puranas and others.
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| 19. | The earliest Vedic text on astronomy is the " Vedanga Jyotisha "; Vedic thought later came to include astrology as well.
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| 20. | Individually, these auxiliary disciplines of study are traceable to the 2nd millennium BCE, and the 5th-century BCE scholar Yaska quotes the Vedangas.
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