Shiksha is a Sanskrit word, which means "instruction, lesson, learning, study of skill".
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11 Facts About Shiksha
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Shiksha is the field of Vedic study of sound, focussing on the letters of the Sanskrit alphabet, accent, quantity, stress, melody and rules of euphonic combination of words during a Vedic recitation.
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Shiksha is the oldest and the first auxiliary discipline to the Vedas, maintained since the Vedic era.
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Shiksha literally means "instruction, lesson, study, knowledge, learning, study of skill, training in an art".
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Roots of Shiksha can be traced to the Rigveda which dedicates two hymns 10.
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The Shiksha field was likely well developed by the time Aranyakas and Upanishads layer of the Vedas were being composed.
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Shiksha, as described in these ancient texts, had six chapters – varna, svara, matra, bala, saman and samtana.
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Further, the Shiksha scholars added Mudra to go with each sound, thereby providing a visual confirmation and an alternate means to check the reading integrity by the audience, in addition to the audible means.
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Methodical phonetic procedure developed by Shiksha helped preserve the Vedas without the slightest variants in the most faithful way possible.
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However, state Wilke and Moebus, the Shiksha methodology has been not just highly technical, it has strong aesthetic "sensuous, emotive" dimension, which foster thinking and intellectual skills in a participatory fashion.
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Varga system and the Pratishakshyas, contributions of the Shiksha texts, are elaborate systems which deal with the generation and classification of sound.
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