घनपाठ

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Puranic Encyclopaedia

GHANAPĀṬHA   A particular system of vedic studies. there are four such systems. The system of separating each word from conjunctions and combinations and combining with the word just before and after it is called Jaṭāpāṭha. Jaṭāpāṭha means joined or combined Pāṭha. Ghanapāṭha is there to avoid errors in Jaṭāpāṭha Ghanapāṭha consists of padapāṭha and Kramapāṭha. In Padapāṭha the split words are once more combined and Prātiśākhya lays down the rules to combine words. it is because of this scientific system of reciting that the Ṛgveda remains to this day pure in text without different readings.