بید

बेद bed [S. वेद], s.m. The sacred scriptures of the Hindūs;—(The original Veda is believed to have been revealed by Brahmāand to have been preserved by tradition until it was arranged in its present order by a certain sage who thence obtained the surname of Vyās or Vedavyās, i.e. compiler of the Vedas:—He distributed the sacred writings into four parts, viz. 1˚, the Rig-veda; 2˚the Yajush or YajurVeda; 3˚, the Sāma-Veda; 4˚, the AtharvaVeda);—divine knowledge; faith, certainty:—bed-āng (veda+anga), s.m. The general term for the six auxiliary or subordinate branches of the Vedas, viz. (1), Śikshā, or the rules of pronunciation and recital; (2), Kalpa, or the details of religious ceremonies; (3), Vyākaraṇ, or grammar; (4), Ćhand, or prosody; (5), Nirukti, or the explanation of difficult, obscure, or obsolete words that occur in the Vedas; (6), Jyotis or astronomy.