450 0>? THE VE'DAS, 



tory to have reigned at the beginning of the Call 

 age. But, besides the constant uncertainty re- 

 specting Indian saints, who appear and re-appear 

 in heroic history at periods most remote, there is 

 in this, as in manj^ other instances of the names of 

 princes, a source of confusion and possible error, 

 from the recurrence of the same name, with the 

 addition even of the same patronymic, for princes 

 remote from each other. Thus, according to Pu- 

 rcinaSj Paricsiiit, thi?d son of Curu, had a son 

 named Janame'jaya; and he may be the person 

 here meant, rather than one of the same name, 

 who was the great grandson of Arjuna. 



On the Black Yajurve'da. 



THE Taitliriya, or black Yqjush, is more co- 

 pious (I mean, in regard to mantras,) than the 

 white Yajush, but less so than the Rigveda. Its 

 Sanhita, or collection of prayers, is arranged in 

 seven books (asht'aca, or canda), containing from 

 five to eight lectures, or chapters (adliyaya, pras- 

 7ia, or prapat'aca). Each chapter, or lecture, is 

 subdivided into sections (anuvaca), which are 

 equally'distributed in the third and sixth books ; 

 but unequally in the rest. The whole number ex- 

 ceeds six hundred and fifty. 



Another mode of division, by cihidas, is stated 

 in the index. In this arrangement, each book 

 (carida) relates to a separate subject; and the 

 chapters (prasna)^ comprehended in it, are enu- 

 merated and described. Besides this, in the San- 

 hita itself, the texts contained in every section 



