46 . Account oF a Discovery OF Ayo.) 
undergo, is remarkable, but Fthink it may be explaineds in fact J AIMINE | 
is considered by the Hindus as the’ founder: of! what.is called the Purva » 
Mimdémsicd school, who teach, that the Carman, works or rites, are the 
essential part.af feligion, -and: that the power of the:divinity is innately 
embadied.in the words; of the. uncreated and eternal. Véda;* those ta~ 
whom these writings owe their. present form, seem to have discovered this, 
probably. from. the information af some of their native assistants, while in, 
the act of arjanging their :materials, and, struck with the absurdity of, 
attributing to this;personage doctrines so: opposite to those he was known 
to have maintained, to have deposed him from, his dignity of teacher and 
raised 10 it his quondam disciple, | 
Ir the Pseudo-Védas differ entirely from the real in substance and 
arrangement, the difference they exhibit in style, also, is not less remark- 
able. The Sdma-V éda is.called the Metrie, and the Yejush, the Prosaic= - 
Véda, but in the latter, verse is occasionally intermixed with the prose. | 
The Mantrams of the Sdma-Véda,-when used in sacred rites, are sung 
those of the other-three are chaunted, and in the written copies, therefore, 
the accents are marked as in modein editions of Greek: works, or as in 
the service books of choirs. ‘The Ryg-Véda is wholly in verse and the 
Atharvana partly in verse and partly in prose. ‘Three species of verse 
are generally used: in the Véda, with which others are occasionally, but - 
“* Some'sécts of the Jews. held with respect to the bible, and some sects of Muhkommedans now hold 
with respect to the Koran, nearly the same opinion: this particular folly does not appear to have ever 
infected any denomination of Christians. 
