SB 1.4.23 (1962)
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
TEXT No. 23
Ta eba rishaya vedam swam swam byasyan-nanekdha
Shisyai prashisyais tachhisyair Vedaste shakhina abhavan.
ENGLISH SYNONYMS
Ta—they, Eta—all these, Rishaya—Learned scholars, Vedam—the respective Vedas, Swam swam—in their own entrusted matter, Byasan—rendered, Anekadha—many, Shisya—disciple, Prasisya—grand-disciple, Tatchisya—great-grand disciple, Vedaste—followers of the respective Vedas, Shakhina—different branches, Abhavan—thus became.
TRANSLATION
All these learned scholars in their turn rendered their entrusted matter of Vedas unto many disciples grand-disciples and great-grand-disciples and thus they became the respective branches of the followers of the Vedas.
PURPORT
The original source of knowledge are the Vedas. There is no branch of knowledge either mundane or transcendental,—which does not belong to the original text of the Vedas. They have simply been developed by different branches of followers as they were originally rendered by great, respectable and learned professors. In other words the Vedic knowledge, in different branches by different disciplic succssion, has been distributed all over the world. Nobody, can therefore, claim independant knowledge beyond the Vedas.