A Vedic Concordance c5.s1.4

c5.s1.4

it is plain that the latter is a true variant of the former. In this instance even the motive of the changes is plain: the Atharva-Veda transfuses the hieratic language of the Rig-Veda into its own more popular wording. Another well-defined, though not common, class of true variant passages includes the ūha-pādas, which consist of an otherwise identical phrase varied, for instance, by the substitution of the name of one deity for another. Such are