History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v3.c47.6

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before that date. Most of the Vedic Saṁhitās that we now have are arranged (except the Ṛgveda to some extent) definitely for the various aspects of the cult of the sacrifice and indicate a state of things when different priests were required for the sacrifices, who used *mantras* from the collections they had studied.