Ancient Indian Education (Brahmanical and Buddhist) c9.13

c9.13

In this way, the whole compilation came to include 1,028 hymns and 10,580 verses in 70,000 lines of 153,826 words. Of these 70,000 lines, 5,000 lines are found to be repetitions. This shows that the makers of later hymns were only drawing upon a common source, the large stock or floating literature of older hymns which had already been in circulation in the country.