ta eta ṛṣayo vedaṁ svaṁ svaṁ vyasyann anekadhā śiṣyaiḥ praśiṣyais tac-chiṣyair vedās te śākhino 'bhavan
Synonyms
te—they; ete—all these; ṛṣayaḥ—Learned scholars; vedam—the respective Vedas; svam svam—in their own entrusted matter; vyasyan—rendered; anekadhā—many; śiṣyaiḥ—disciple; praśiṣyaiḥ—grand-disciple; tat-śiṣyaiḥ—great-grand disciple. Vedaste—followers of the respective vedas; vedāḥ te—different branches; śākhinaḥ—thus became.
Translation
All these learned scholars in their turn rendered their entrusted matter of Vedas unto many disciples grand-disciples and great-grand-disciples and thus they became the respctive branches of the followers of the Vedas.
Purport
The original source of knowledge are the Vedas. There is no branch of knowledge either mundane or transcendental,—which does not belong to the original text of the Vedas. They have simply been developed by different branches of followers as they were originally rendered by great, respectable and learned professors. In other words the Vedic knowledge, in different branches by different disciplic succssion, has been distributed all over the world. No body, can therefore, claim independent knowedge beyond the Vedas.