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different persons, or whether it is subject to one unvarying mode of . 
division alone, those who originally arranged it have each given their 
names to the result of their labors: thus, as the first SdcAd of the 
Crishita=Yejush was arranged by the Taitirtyah or disciples of .Vaisam-~ 
pdyanah, it is called the Tartirtyd-Samlita,.and of the five editions 
or tracts, composing the Véda, it is the only ene usually so called, the 
others being mere appropriately denominated ‘Sdchd enly, not being 
distinguished-from each other by avy peculiar arrangement of the text. 
From what has been said, it appears, that the term Sacha, regards the 
substance of the writing to which it is applica, and Samhita ; the arrange- 
~ ment of the text, 
Besipes the term Samhita, as applied to the arrangement of the: text: 
into distinct sentences, there are other minor divisions, the most usual 
of which are Padam, the simple division of the text into words in the 
order in which they stand, and Cramam, the division and re-combination 
of them according to the sense.—Again, the text is distributed into 
divisions larger than the Samhita, as “‘Chaida, Sticta and Anuviea, 
sections, of greater or less length, consisting of many Samhitas; 
Ad hyaya, Prasna, Py rapatdea, containing many sections: Mazdala, 
Asht aca, or Cdida, divisions or books composed of a certain number of 
ehapters. These ‘divisions are not conymon ‘to all the Védas3 some are 
confined ‘to one only, as the Chanda to the Sucla-Vejush vt, and some. are’ 
cominon to two ér more, ‘as Suciam tothe Rich, and Aiharvana and 
Ad hydija to all.” 
