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