CHAPTER IX.
BRAHMANISM.
Besides the Rig Veda and the Atharva Veda there are two others, called respectively the S[=a]ma Veda and the Yajur Veda.[1] The former consists of a small collection of verses, which are taken chiefly from the eighth and ninth books of the Rig Veda, and are arranged for singing.

It has a few more verses than are contained in the corresponding parts of the Rik, but the whole is of no added importance from the present point of view.

It is of course made entirely for the ritual.

Also made for the ritual is the Yajur Veda, the Veda of sacrificial formulae.

But this Veda is far more important.
With it one is brought into a new land, and into a world of ideas that are strange to the Rik.