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#IntroductionToVedas Part 2
Without wasting too much time lets take the name of Lord Ganesha & start part 2

वक्रतुण्ड महाकाय सूर्यकोटि समप्रभ
निर्विघ्नं कुरु मे देव सर्वकार्येषु सर्वदा
वक्रतुण्ड महाकाय सूर्यकोटि समप्रभ
निर्विघ्नं कुरु मे देव सर्वकार्येषु सर्वदा
@Dix5a https://twitter.com/mysql_sync/status/1250085512095793152

Q8. Vedas are in what language?
A8. Vedas are in Daivic / Vedic Sanskrit. This language can be understood with the help of Vedangas such as Panini’s Ashtadhyayi (grammar), Nighantu (glossary / index), and Yaska’s Nirukta (etymology), Jyotish, etc.
@vivekagnihotri @epic_warr

[The western indologists have totally disregarded the Vedangas and have just assumed that Vedas were written in primitive / nascent / archaic Sanskrit. They just mapped the Vedic words to the current / local Sanskrit dictionaries
@udaya_venu @UshaNirmala @TVMohandasPai

and grammar and then derived obscure meanings out of that collation.]

Q9. What does Vedas contain?
A9. The term Veda comes from the root word Vid, which is also the root for the word Vidya. Vedas contain Vidya meaning knowledge.
@the_kickker @radvind @AnonEagleFlight @Ladybheem

Each mantra can have multiple meanings, which can be any of the following three types of knowledge viz., Spiritual (Adhyatmika), Meta-physical (Adhidaivika), and Yajna / Action oriented (Adhiyajnik). Adhiyajnik meaning would
@DostKhan_Jammu @BesuraTaansane @caa_nrc_best

include not only offering oblations to fire, but would include the other necessary actions and knowledge (including material sciences) required for a living. For example Rig, Yaju, Saam, and Atharva contains various verses expounding Pure sciences,
@parvathimenon @GuptaRavikala

Administration (of state and home), Applied Sciences, and Arts, respectively.
Q10. What does Vedas not contain?
A10. Since Vedas is the seed knowledge given by God, in the beginning of human creation, it does not contain
@MohanShobitha @CosmosSanatan @noopur_hore @kkay_patel

History, Geography or information which change over time and place.
*Counter Q.:* Vedas do contain words which seem to indicate history and geography of vedic period of India? *Counter Ans.:* Even today the names of people and
@mehergardhBaloc @Atheist_vashali @MyPoint0fView_

things are given upon Vedic words. This cannot be obscured to mean that Vedas contain reference to present also. Similarily, commonality of terms used (i) in History and Geography and (ii) in Vedas, are a result of Vedic words being used to name people and
@amatya18 @sanj9

places in the past and not otherwise.

Q11. Who all have translated Vedas and in what languages?
A11. Many scholars has translated the Vedas, however,
@PlsFo @LevinaNeythiri @NaanOfficialBC @LtGenGurmit @akpurohitngr @follow2deep2 @rightwingchora @VandanaIndian7 @vaidehi_sing

due to destruction of Vedic literature and libraries during the Muslim rule, very limited content is available now. All the scholar, across India, seem to have translated the Vedas in Sanskrit only, ie, from Vedic Sanskrit to Sanskrit, that too in parts.
@DevilonEarth01

The following is the available list (of Indian Indologists):
(a)Skandasvami [Pre-600 AD]: Parts of commentary on Rig Ved and Nirukta
(b)Durga [Pre-600 AD]: Parts of commentary on Vedas and Nirukta
(c)Udgitha [~687 AD]: Parts of commentary on Vedas and Nirukta
@GUY_WITH_BEARD7

(d)Harisvami [?]: Satpath Brahman
(e)Uvvata [?]: Yajurveda
(f)Vararuchi [?]: Parts of Nirukta
(g)Bhattabhaskaara [~11 century AD]: Tittariya Samhita/Brahman/Aranyaka
(h)Venkata Madhava: Parts of RigVed (published from Adyar)
@Aprameya_Uma_11 @PoisonIvy108 @shantana_theva

(i)Atmanand [~13 century AD]: Parts of RigVed
(j)Ananda Tirth [1255 – 1335 AD]: first 40 sooktas of RigVeda
(k)Satrughna: Matrartha Dipika
(l)Madhava: SaamVeda
(m)BharatSvami (~1350): SaamVeda
(n)Devapala: Some Veda Mantras in Laugasikgrhyasutra
@RajeIyer @AnnTChrist2

(o)Anand Bodha: Kanva Shakha
(p)Anantacharya: Paraskaramantrabhashya
(q)Venkatesa: Taittriya Samhita
(r)Acharya Sayana [16th century AD under Raja Krishdeva Rai of Hampi]: All Four Vedas – but mostly
@yeuxquiparlent @vairisimha @TheMumbaiGirl_

Adhiyajnik translation only (that too meaning for offering oblations to Yajna, only)
(s)Mahidhar [late 16th century]: Yajurveda (Vaam margi)
(t)Swami Dayanand Saraswati [1824-83]: Yajurved and parts of RigVed [upto seven and half mandal out of 10 mandals].
@ibishwal

Swamiji’s sanskrit translation was also translated in Hindi by the Pandits of Arya Samaj.
(u)Pandit MR Jambunathan [1896-1974]: All four Vedas in Tamil
(v)Pandit Sudhakar Chaturvedi [1897-2020]: All four Vedas in Kannad
@brahmanhoon @NAN_DINI_ @idnani_nandini @bvarchas

(w)Pandit V Balakrishnan & Dr R Leela Devi [1932-2004]: All four Vedas in Malayalam
(x)Pandit Loka Malahari: Yajurveda and Atharva Ved in Telugu
(y)Pandit Devichand [1880-1965]: Yaju, Arharva and Saam Ved in English

@AskChirayu @Divya_S_RATH0RE @DMandalam @Vandanahindu

(z)Pandit Satya Prakash Sarawasti and Pdt Satyakam Vidyalankar: All four Vedas in English. I hope you like this thread too . 3rd part will be available tomorrow .
@Krishna_Priiya @advait_soul @Abhi_Balasara @br_sharma_ @chitranayal09 @chandan126772 @SatyaSanatanInd @getazadi