44 Account or a Discipvery or A 
both in the Manframs,* and Upanishats, they ave far from frequent and 
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altogether constitute a very small portion of either of the Védas ; this 
form is however, of much more frequent occurrence in the Purdnams; 
the Bhd gavat Gita, it is well known is, a dialogue between Caisuna and 
Arsuna3 the whole of the Bhdrata indeed is similarly arranged; so, 
also, is the Bhégavatam. In this, therefore, as in other circumstances, 
as will be shown, the Jesués, unacquainted with the real arrangement 
of the Védas, have followed the Puranams to which they had easier 
access.— The interlocutors in these dialogues, are for the Yejur Véda, 
SumanTa as teacher, Vy4sa as disciples for the Rig Véda,}+ Pot 
PALADO as teacher, Na«raba as disciples for the Afharvana Véda, pee 
as teacher, ANcinas as disciple, and for the Sdma Véda, Jarmunt and 
Nxravana, witli a change of character, first one and then the other 
being teacher and disciple. In selecting these characters, a little know= 
ledge is strangely intermixed with abundance of errors to make Vyasa, 
who compiled and arranged the whole Véda, the disciple of Sumanra, 
of whom he was in fact the preceptor is absurd; this awkward introduce 
tion of the chief of Ladian sages, arises professedly from the composition 
of the Purdnas being, also, attributed to him, the Pseudo- Yajur Véda 
being principally devoted to the refutation of tlie tables contained ia 
those works.. ‘The Yajur Véda, as is well known is of two descriptions, 
the Crishiia or black yejush, originally taught by Vartsampavana, and 
Ses 
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* ‘Puw former and latter divisions of the Veda, under these general titles, as explaiaed in a former 
note. 
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+ Tur usual arrangement of the titles of the Védas, are Rig, Yejur, Sdma, Athervana; I here mea- 
tion them as casually nurabered in the preceding account of the MSS, 
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