History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v7.c90.130

v7.c90.130

Several objections can be raised against the positive assertion of deliberate and fraudulent suppression inferred from mere silence. In the first place, Pargiter is very loose in his statement of facts. Pargiter totally ignores that even in the Ṛgveda itself, *ṛk* verses, *yajus* texts and *sāman* chants are differentiated. To give only a few references, vide for Ṛks (Ṛg. II. 35. 12, V. 6. 5, V. 27. 4, V. 44. 14–15), in both verses of the last ṛk and sāmans being separately mentioned; for *yajus* *vide* Ṛg. V. 62. 5, X. 181. 3); for sāman chants *vide* Ṛg. II. 43. 2 (udgāteva śakune sāma gāyasi), VIII. 81. 5 (śravat sāma gīyamānam), VIII. 95. 7 (*śuddhena sāmnā*).