The History of Indian Literature c8.440

c8.440

—a claim which has probably no other foundation than the circumstance, cleverly turned to account, that there was, in fact, no particular Veda for the Brahman, who was bound to know all three, as is expressly required in the Kaushítaki-Bráhmaṇa (see *I. St.*, ii. 305). Now the weaker these pretensions are, the more strongly are they put forward in the Atharvan-writings, which indeed display a very great animosity to the other Vedas. Towards one another, too, they show a hostile enough spirit; for instance, one of the Pariśishṭas considers a Bhárgava, Paippaláda, and Śaunaka alone worthy to act as priest to the king,[^asterisk] while a Mauda or Jalada as *purohita* would only bring misfortune.