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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 1, Ch. 4]
te —they;  ete —all these;  ṛṣayaḥ —learned scholars;  vedam —the respective  Vedas ;  svam svam —in their own entrusted matters;  vyasyan —rendered;  anekadhā —many;  śiṣyaiḥ —disciples;  praśiṣyaiḥ —grand-disciples;  tat-śiṣyaiḥ —great grand-disciples;  vedāḥ te —followers of the respective  Vedas ;  śākhinaḥ —different branches;  abhavan —thus became.
TRANSLATION
All these learned scholars, in their turn, rendered their entrusted  Vedas  unto their many disciples, grand disciples and great grand disciples, and thus the respective branches of the followers of the  Vedas  came into being.
PURPORT
The original source of knowledge is the  Vedas . There are no branches of knowledge, either mundane or transcendental, which do not belong to the original text of the  Vedas . They have simply been developed into different branches. They were originally rendered by great, respectable and learned professors. In other words, the  Vedic  knowledge, broken into different branches by different discipline successions, has been distributed all over the world. No one, therefore, can claim independent knowledge beyond the  Vedas .
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त एव वेदा दुर्मेधैर्धार्यन्ते पुरुषैर्यथा । एवं चकार भगवान् व्यासः कृपणवत्सलः ॥२४॥
ta eva vedā durmedhair dhāryante puruṣair yathā evam cakāra bhagavān vyāsaḥ kṛpaṇa-vatsalaḥ
te —that;  eva —certainly;  vedāḥ —the book of the knowledge;  durmedhaiḥ —by the less intellectual;  dhāryante —can assimilate;  puruṣaiḥ —by the man;  yathā —as much as;  evam —thus;  cakāra —edited;  bhagavān —the powerful;  vyāsaḥ —the great sage of  Vyāsa ;  kṛpaṇa-vatsalaḥ —very kind to the ignorant mass.