The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c9.s1.4

c9.s1.4

Nay, one may take the *Rig Veda*, as does the French Indologist, Barth, to be younger than the *Atharva Veda*.¹ Only a part of the faiths of the period is opened up by the *Rig Veda*. The authors of the *Ṛiks* or rather their compilers have overlooked or ignored many of the institutions such as are to be found, for instance, in the *Atharva Veda*.