Vedic science

Vedic science may refer to a number of disciplines: ancient and modern, scientific, metaphysical, proto-scientific, found in or based in the Vedas.

Vedic period

• Vedanga, the six ancient disciplines subservient to the understanding and tradition of the Vedas

1. Shiksha (śikṣā): phonetics and phonology (sandhi)
2. Chandas (chandas): meter
3. Vyakarana (vyākaraṇa): grammar
4. Nirukta (nirukta): etymology
5. Jyotisha (jyotiṣa): astrology (Hindu astronomy)
6. Kalpa (kalpa): ritual

Traditional

• Historical Indian mathematics
• Traditional Hindu units of measurement
• Ayurveda, traditional medicine of India
• Dhanurveda, traditional martial arts of India

Modern

• Hindu views on evolution
• Pseudoscientific claims of a prefiguration of modern science in the Vedas, see scientific foreknowledge in the Vedas

See also

• Hindu cosmology
• Science and technology in ancient India