घनपाठ

यन्त्रोपारोपितकोशांशः

Purana Encyclopedia

पृष्ठभागोऽयं यन्त्रेण केनचित् काले काले मार्जयित्वा यथास्रोतः परिवर्तयिष्यते। तेन मा भूदत्र शोधनसम्भ्रमः। सज्जनैः मूलमेव शोध्यताम्।

GHANAPĀṬHA : A particular system of Vedic studies. There are four such systems. The system of separating each word from conjunctions and combinations and combining with the word just before and after it is called Jaṭāpāṭha. Jaṭāpāṭha means joined or combined Pāṭha. Ghanapāṭha is there to avoid errors in Jaṭāpāṭha Ghanapāṭha consists of padapāṭha and Kramapāṭha. In Padapāṭha the split words are once more combined and Prātiśākhya lays down the rules to combine words. It is because of this scientific system of reciting that the Ṛgveda remains to this day pure in text without different readings.


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*5th word in right half of page 288 (+offset) in original book.