A History of Sanskrit Literature c12.19

c12.19

To the *Atharva-veda* belongs the important *Kauçika Sūtra*. It is not a mere Gṛihya Sūtra, for besides giving the more important rules of the domestic ritual, it deals with the magical and other practices specially connected with its Veda. By its extensive references to these subjects it supplies much material unknown to other Vedic schools. It is a composite work, apparently made up of four or five different treatises. In combination with the *Atharva-veda* it supplies an almost complete picture of the ordinary life of the Vedic Indian.