A History of Sanskrit Literature c11.22

c11.22

There are four other short works which, though bearing the name, are not really Brāhmaṇas. These are the *Sāmavidhāna Brāhmaṇa*, a treatise on the employment of chants for all kinds of superstitious purposes; the *Devatādhyāya Brāhmaṇa*, containing some statements about the deities of the various chants of the *Sāmaveda*; the *Vaṃça Brāhmaṇa*, which furnishes a genealogy of the teachers of the *Sāmaveda*; and, finally, the *Saṃhitopanishad*, which, like the third book of the *Aitareya Āraṇyaka*, treats of the way in which the Veda should be recited.