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Excerpt from The Upanishads, Vol. 1 The four collections of the Vedas were made to facilitate the duties of the three classes of priests, in the sacrificial ceremonies, and of the superintendent of the sacrifice. These priests were called hotri, adhvaryu, and udgatri. The first used the Rigveda, or versified mantras; the second the Yajurveda, or prose mantras; and the third the Samaveda, or mantras chanted in a peculiar manner, different from the ordinary chanting used in reading the mantras of the Rig and Yajur. The Atharvaveda was used by the super intending Brahman, and consisted of some portions of the first three Vedas, and also other mantras. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
