ta eta ṛṣayo vedaá¹
svaá¹ svaá¹ vyasyann anekadhÄ
śiṣyaiḥ praśiṣyais tac-chiṣyair
vedÄs te Å›Äkhino 'bhavan
te - they; ete - all these; ṛṣayaḥ - learned scholars; vedam - the respective Vedas; svam svam - in their own entrusted matters; vyasyan - rendered; anekadhÄ - many; Å›iá¹£yaiḥ - disciples; praÅ›iá¹£yaiḥ - grand-disciples; tat-Å›iá¹£yaiḥ - great grand-disciples; vedÄḥ te - followers of the respective Vedas; Å›Äkhinaḥ - different branches; abhavan - thus became.
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.