Comprising Shiksha (phonology), Chandas (prosody), Vyakarana (grammar and linguistic analysis), Nirukta (etymology), Kalpa (ritual instructions) and Jyotisha (astrology), the
Vedanga, or 'the limbs of the Veda,' are six auxiliary disciplines connected with the study of the Vedas, which are the oldest scriptures of Hinduism.
Smriti literature includes the Dharmasutras, Itihasa (histories, including the epics Mahabharata and the Ramayana), Purana (18 books that focus on Shiva or Vishnu as the preferred supreme deity),
Vedanga (six auxiliary disciplines for the understanding and tradition of the Vedas), Agama (the Vaishnava, Shaiva, and Shakta doctrines), and Darshana (philosophies--six in number, including the Nyaya, Vaisheshika, Sankhya, Yoga, Purva Mimamsa and Uttara Mimamsa) texts.
On the contrary, as Candona says, neither Panini, nor Patanjali is affiliated to any particular sakha in presenting grammar as a part of Vedic studies (
Vedanga).
So this system of astrology is the unseparative part of Buddhism as the
Vedanga Jyotish of Hinduism.
The science in which these constellations has been carefully studied is called
Vedanga Jyotisa or Astronomy, which is one of the six
Vedangas, subsidiary sciences of the Vedas; the others are phonetics, ritual, etymology, grammar and matrix.
Vedanga Any one of six classes of concise, technical, and usually aphoristic Sanskrit works written in the sutra style and designed to teach how to recite, understand, and apply Vedic texts.
inscription on the basis of Jyautisa
vedanga does not carry any
We know that he was a Marathi-speaking Brahmin who flourished in the second half of the seventeenth century; (2) that his family had been established in a town on the banks of the Godavari; that Nilakantha moved to Banaras, where he undertook the study of Veda and
Vedanga, Mimamsa, Srauta, Yoga, Saiva texts, Tarka, and especially Advaita Vedanta, with a variety of teachers.
810 that Sri-parvata was a major center for the study of Vedas and
vedanga traditions and that "this site was already an important holy center for the Kalamukhas." Additionally, Lorenzen points to inscriptional evidence of these Saivite traditions involved in the study of Paninian grammar, among other sastras (pp.
thinks that a date of 1800 B.C., proposed by Thibaut on the basis of the
Vedanga Jyotisa, was too early.