A Vedic Reader for Students

Next follows the transliterated Samhita text in whiec4 by the removal of vowel-- contractions the resolution osettiVOwels; and the replacement of a the original metre of the Rigveda irestored and; Eby the use of pünctuation the sense is made clewer. [...] The date of the inscription leaves twocenturies for the separation of the Indians their °migration to India and the commencement of the Vedic hymn literature in the north-west of Hindustan. [...] This text which is virtually the earliest comentary onthe Rigveda was followed by other and more complicated methods of reciting the text and by various works called Anukraanis or indexes.which enumerate from the beginning to the end of the Rigveda the number of stanzas contained in each hymn the deities and the metres of all the stanzas of the Rigveda. [...] Though the personification goes much further here than in the case of othtr streams the connexion of the goddess with the river is never lost sight of in the RV. [...] Gandharva is in the a single being (like the Gandarewa of the Ave4a) who dwells in the aerial sphere guards the celestial Soma and is (as in the Avesta) connected with the waters.