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राम

Action and Sacred Learning

The branches of the Ṛgveda

Unit 24 of 37 · printed source 97

Sanskrit · Devanagari

तथाऽऽदिशन्त्याभिचारसामान्येन पृथक् पृथक्। एकविंशतिशाखायामृग्वेदः परिकीर्तितः ॥ २४ ॥

IAST

tathā''diśantyābhicārasāmānyena pṛthak pṛthak| ekaviṃśatiśākhāyāmṛgvedaḥ parikīrtitaḥ || 24 ||

Fresh English translation

Thus they teach them separately in relation to rites directed toward particular ends. The Ṛgveda is proclaimed to possess twenty-one branches.