Vedic Metre in its Historical Development c5.s2.18

c5.s2.18

63. We have thus outlined a rearrangement of the contents of the Rigveda into four principal groups, each containing subdivisions corresponding to the arrangement of the text of the Rigveda itself. This rearrangement is necessarily tentative, and the titles given to each group are intended merely to facilitate reference and to aid the memory. Such titles as ‘bardic’ and ‘popular’ may easily be found misleading if they are supposed to indicate in any adequate way the general history of Vedic poetry from the standpoint of the developement of social institutions: such a study lies beyond the purpose of this book.