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Shiksha
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Also known as siksa, siksha

thumb|upright=1.25|A page from the Yajnavalkya Shiksha manuscript (Sanskrit, Devanagari). This text is also called Vajasaneyi Shiksha and Traisvarya Lakshana.

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13 sections
Contents
  • Etymology
  • History
  • Discussion
  • Pratishakhyas
  • Other Shiksha texts
  • Sound and alphabet
  • Vowels
  • Articulation
  • Articulation of consonants
  • See also
  • References
  • Bibliography
  • External links

thumb|upright=1.25|A page from the Yajnavalkya Shiksha manuscript (Sanskrit, Devanagari). This text is also called Vajasaneyi Shiksha and Traisvarya Lakshana.

Shiksha is one of the six Vedangas, or limbs of Vedic studies, dealing with phonetics and phonology in Sanskrit. The Sanskrit word () means 'instruction, lesson, learning, study of skill'. Practitioners studied the letters of the Sanskrit alphabet, accent, quantity, stress, melody and rules of euphonic combination of words during a Vedic recitation.

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