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# A Vedic Concordance c5.s1.4

A Vedic Concordance c5.s1.4

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### [c5.s1.4](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.bloomfield-1906.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

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