Partial translation of “veda bhāṣa” by Late Sri. Vishwanadha Achyutadeva Rayalu in Telugu.

Introduction: This article attempts to illustrate a method to explain how the devatās declared in the Vedas, in an abstract or conceptual form, are given a “svarūpam” or a “form” by kalpa sūtra kartas and smr̥ti kartas. The example taken herein is the Goddess Sarasvatī and we attempt to build a form by analyzing the meaning of the individual letters or “akṣara”s forming the word or śabda “sarasvatī”. An attempt is also made to highlight a key aspect of the Vedic language, which is that individual akṣaras in Veda have unique meanings, and the meaning of a word or śabda is a collation of the meanings of the individual akṣaras.

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