Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Hymns of the Atharva-Ve, Vol. 1: With a Popular Commentary
Tat Atharva-veda is a comparatively late addition to the three ancient Vedas, the Rik, Yajus, and Sfiman the Vedas respectively of recited praise, sacrifice, and song or chanted hymn-which formed the foundation of the early religious belief and worship of the Hindus. Unlike these three Vedas, the Atharva-veda derives the name by which it is generally known, not from the nature of its contents but from a personage of indefinite Iy remote antiquity named Atharvan, who is spoken of in the Rigveda as the first priest who 'rubbed Agni forth'. Or produced fire by attrition, who 'first by sacrifices made the paths or established ways of com munication between men and Gods, and overcame hostile demons by means of the miraculous powers which he had received from heaven. To the descend ants of this Atharvan, associated with the Angirases and the Bhrigus, members of other ancient priestly families often mentioned in the Rigveda, the collected hymns called also the Atharvangirasas and the Bhriga vangirasas, that is the Songs of the Atharvans and Angirases and the Songs of the Bhrigus and Angirases.
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