The Music of Hindostan c15.24

c15.24

The *Atharvaveda* does not appear to be recited, at least not in accordance with rules. But all reading of the *śāstras* is recitation. Students read, i. e. recite, in the same room. Children are taught to read so. A boy read me some of the *Ṛgveda*, employing the accents correctly, but stopped when he reached a certain page ‘because he had not learned any further’.