Vedic science may refer to a number of disciplines: ancient and modern, scientific and unscientific, religious, metaphysical, Hindu, occultist, New Age, proto-scientific, or pseudoscientific found in or based on the Vedas (the oldest holy texts of the Hindu religion, written beginning ca. 1000 BCE).
- Vedic period
- Vedanga, the six ancient disciplines subservient to the understanding and tradition of the Vedas
- Shiksha (śikṣā): phonetics and phonology (sandhi)
- Chandas (chandas): meter
- Vyakarana (vyākaraṇa): grammar
- Nirukta (nirukta): etymology
- Jyotisha (jyotiṣa): astrology (Hindu astronomy)
- Kalpa (kalpa): ritual
- Traditional
- Historical Indian mathematics
- Traditional Hindu units of measurement
- Ayurveda, traditional medicine of India
- Dhanurveda, traditional martial arts of India
- Modern
- Hindu views on evolution
- Pseudoscientific claims of a prefiguration of modern science in the Vedas, see scientific foreknowledge in the Vedas
- Maharishi Vedic Science of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
- Bharati Krishna Tirtha's Vedic mathematics (not to be confused with historical Indian mathematics)
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