2025, Vol. 11, Issue 5, Part E

This study examines the Vēdic conception of language and sound, distinguishing the Chāndasa (Vēdic) tongue from classical Sanskrit by its autonomous phonetic and metaphysical principles. In Vēdic thought, each Vēdākṣara (sound) embodies intrinsic consciousness and creative potency. Through an analysis of Taittirīya Saṃhitā (2.3.10–11), the terms navanīta, sarpiḥ, and घृत are interpreted as representing origination, motion, and stabilization, the triadic stages of life (āyuṣ). The transformation of sound within these mantras, especially the phonetic shift from द to घ, reveals a metaphysical movement from flux to stability. “घृत” thus signifies the embodied continuity of life, linking mortality (āyuṣ) to immortality (amṛta). By correlating phonetics, ritual, and ontology, the study concludes that Vēdic speech (vāk) is not merely linguistic but cosmological-sound functioning as both the creative act and the vehicle of consciousness.