A History of Indian Literature v1.c8.s2.161

v1.c8.s2.161

While these philosophical hymns form, as it were, a bridge to the philosophical speculations of the Upaniṣads, there exist also a number of poems in the Ṛgveda-Saṃhitā—there might be about twenty of them—which form a connecting link with the epic and dramatic poetry. These are fragments of narratives in the form of dialogues (Saṃvādas), and may therefore be fitly called Saṃvāda or dialogue hymns. H. Oldenberg¹ called them "Ākhyāna hymns,"