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⁵ i. 37. 4; iii. 18. 3. In the second chapter of Muir's Sanskrit Texts (vol. iii. pp. 217-86) we have a collection of passages which clearly show that “though some at least of the ṛṣis appear to have imagined themselves to be inspired by the gods in the expression of their religious emotion and ideas, they at the same time regarded the hymns as their own compositions, or as (presumably) the compositions of their forefathers, distinguishing between them as new and old and describing their own authorship in terms which could only have been dictated by a consciousness of its reality.”