212 Srimad-Bhagavatam {Canto 1, Ch. 4

te—they; ete—all these; rsayah—learned scholars; vedam the respective
Vedas; svam svam—in their own entrusted matters; vyasyan—rendered;
anekadha—many; sisyaih—disciples; prasisyaih—grand-disciples; tat-sisyaih
—great grand-disciples; vedah te—followers of the respective Vedas; sakhinah
—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 disciplic successions, has been distributed all over
the world. No one, therefore, can claim independent knowledge beyond
the Vedas.

TEXT 24

ToT Fer gdeaaea geTAAT |
Od FA ATA HAT: HANI! [2

ta eva veda durmedhair
dharyante purusair yatha

evam cakara bhagavan
vyasah krpana-vatsalah

te--that; eva—certainly; vedah—the book of the knowledge; durmedhaih
—by the less intellectual; dharyante—can assimilate; purusaih—by the man;
yatha—as much as; evam—thus; cakadra—edited; bhagavan—the powerful;
vydsah—the great sage of Vyasa; krpana-vatsalah—very kind to the ignorant
mass.
