OR SACRED WRITINGS OF THE HINDUS. 46)1 



to be the same, only arranged in a different order, 

 and marked for a different mode of recitation, I 

 am led to think, that other collections, under si- 

 milar names *, may not differ more widely from 

 the ^Vc^ic^ and Aranya above-mentioned: and 

 that these may possibly constitute the whole of 

 that part of the Scimav6da, which corresponds to 

 the Sanhitas of other Vidas. 



Under the denomination of Brahman' a ^ which 

 is appropriated to the second part or supple- 

 ment of the Vkla^ various works have been re- 

 ceived by different schools of the Suinaveda. Four 

 appear to be extant; three of which have been 

 seen by me, either complete or in part. One is 

 denominated Shadvinsa ; probaby from its contain- 

 ing twenty-six chapters. Another is called Ad- 

 hhuta, or, at greater length, Adbhuta Brahmaria. 

 The only portion, which I have yet seen, of either, 

 has the appearance of a fragment, and breaks off 

 at the close of the fifth chapter : both names are 

 there introduced, owing, as it should seem, to 

 some error; and I shall not attempt to determine 

 which of them it really belongs to. A third Brcih- 

 maiia of this Veda is termed Pancha'vinsa ; so 

 named, probably, from the number of twenty-five 

 chapters comprised in it: and I conjecture this to 

 be the same with one in my possession not desig- 

 nated by any particular title, but containing that 

 precise number of chapters. 



* Sir Robert Chambers's copy of the Samaveda com- 

 prised four portions, entitled G&na, the distinct names of wliich, 

 according: to the list received from him, sre Vigdiia A'rnd, Vt' 

 gana, Ugdna, and U/iya gana. The iirst of these, I suspect to 

 be the A'ranya, written in that list, A'rna : the last seems to be 

 the same with that which is in m\ copy denominated Uha gana. 



