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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.4.23
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A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
TEXT 23
- ta eta ṛṣayo vedaṁ
- svaṁ svaṁ vyasyann anekadhā
- śiṣyaiḥ praśiṣyais tac-chiṣyair
- vedās te śākhino 'bhavan
tethey — they; eteall these — all these; ṛṣayaḥlearned scholars — learned scholars; vedamthe respective Vedas — the respective Vedas; svamin their own entrusted matters svamin their own entrusted matters — in their own entrusted matters; vyasyanrendered — rendered; anekadhāmany — many; śiṣyaiḥdisciples — disciples; praśiṣyaiḥgrand-disciples — grand-disciples; tatgreat grand-disciples-śiṣyaiḥgreat grand-disciples — great grand-disciples; vedāḥfollowers of the respective Vedas tefollowers of the respective Vedas — followers of the respective Vedas; śākhinaḥdifferent branches — different branches; abhavanthus became — thus became.
All these learned scholars, in their turn, rendered their entrusted Vedas unto their many disciples, grand-disciples and great grand-disciples, and thus the respective branches of the followers of the Vedas came into being.
The original source of knowledge is the Vedas. There are no branches of knowledge, either mundane or transcendental, which do not belong to the original text of the Vedas. They have simply been developed into different branches, They were originally rendered by great, respectable and learned professors. In other words, the Vedic knowledge, broken into different branches by different disciplic successions, has been distributed all over the world. No one, therefore, can claim independent knowledge beyond the Vedas.