Literally, "limbs"; the central scritpures of Svetambara Jainism.

limbs, accessories of the V e d a, viz. S'îkshâ (phonetics; how to represent vocal sounds by signs and written characters), kalpa (the rituals, prescriptions of rules for ceremony and sacrifice) Vyâkarana, (grammar; the art concerned with the right use and application of the rules of a language ), chandas (prosody: syllable accents; the laws of versification or metrical composition) Jyotisha (astronomy), Nirukta (etymology; to retrace the original meaning of single or composite terms).

a Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria and closely related to Hausa