{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/brk/brk05.htm","path":"hin/brk/brk05.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/brk/brk05.htm","text":"Brahma Knowledge, by L. D. Barnett, [1911]\n\u00a7 2. The Four Vedas.\u2014The hymns of the \u1e5aig-veda, composed by various authors some three thousand years ago, are almost the only monument of the first period of Indian thought; for the collections known as the Yajur-veda and\n[paragraph continues] S\u0101ma-veda are for the most part merely adaptations of the \u1e5aig-veda for special liturgical purposes, while the Atharva-veda, which was not admitted until much later into the Vedic canon, combines \u1e5aig-vedic hymns selected for ritual objects with a mass of various incantations of little or no philosophic and literary merit. The study of these hymn-collections in their liturgical application by the Brahman schools bore as fruit the bulky volumes known generically as Br\u0101hma\u1e47as.","title":"Brahma Knowledge: Part I: The Four Vedas","type":"page"}