The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c9.s8.18

c9.s8.18

The *'Atharva Veda* may have been originally the *Veda* of the Vrātyas. At any rate Book XV of this *Veda* is the embodiment of Vrātya glorification. The association of the Vrātyas with the *Atharva Veda* raises its importance as a document of the demographic and ethnological structure of the Hindu polity of some of the earliest epochs.