A History of Ancient Sanskrit Literature, so far as it illustrates the Primitive Religion of the Brahmans c6.173

c6.173

In the same way, then, as different traditions were current in India relative to such observances, it is probable that different families had their own heroes, perhaps their own deities, and that they kept up the memory of them by their own poetic traditions. It is true that such a view is merely conjectural. But when we see that in some parts of the Veda, which are represented as belonging to different illustrious and noble families, certain gods are more exclusively celebrated¹; that names which in Vedic poetry