The History of Indian Literature c8.138

c8.138

⁴⁹ We find the *Sumantu-Jaimini-Vaiśampáyana - Pailádyá ácháryáḥ* quoted a second time in the Śáṅkh. G., in its last section (vi. 6), which is probably of later origin; and here, without any doubt, the reference is to the same distribution of the four Vedas among the above-named personages which occurs in the Vishṇu-Puráṇa, iii. 4. 8, 9. Both times the representative of the Atharvan comes first, that of the Ṛik last, which in a Ṛik text serves as a clear proof that we have here to do with later appendages. A similar precedence is given to the Atharvaveda in the Mahábháshya; cf. *I. St.*, xiii. 431.