...higher gods as conceived by a comparatively advanced and refined sacerdotal class, the Atharva-veda is, in the main, a book of spells and incantations...contents, are obviously the most important of the four Vedas. As representing religious ideas at an earlier stage than any other literary monuments of the...

...higher gods, as conceived by a comparatively advanced and refined sacerdotal class, the Atharva-Veda is in the main a book of spells and incantations appealing...the lower grades of the population and derived from immemorial antiquity.' It will be observed that both the distinguished scholars whose words have been...

...higher gods, as conceived by a comparatively advanced and refined sacerdotal class, the Atharva-Veda is in the main a book of spells and incantations appealing...the lower grades of the population and derived from immemorial antiquity.' It will be observed that both the distinguished scholars whose words have been...

...higher gods, as conceived by a comparatively advanced and refined sacerdotal class, the Atharva-Veda is in the main a book of spells and incantations appealing to the demon world, and teems with notions about witeheraft current among the lower grades of the population and derived from immemorial antiquity.'...

...higher Gods as conceived by a comparatively advanced and refined sacerdotal class, the Atharva-Veda is, in the main, a book of spells and incantations appealing to the demon-world, and teems with notions of witch-craft current among the. lower grades of the population,...

...Indo-European race... Max Müller supposed the date to be 1200 BC." Further he says: "The Atharva-Veda is, in the main, a book of spells and incantations...current among the lower grades of the population." (Vol. I, p. 13) "They (the Vedas) therefore reflect the civilization of the Aryan people at different...

...higher gods as conceived by a comparatively advanced and refined sacerdotal class, the Atharva-veda is, in the main, a book of spells and incantations...contents, are obviously the most important of the four Vedas. As representing religious ideas at an earlier stage than any other literary monuments of the...

...higher gods as conceived by a comparativelyadvanced and refi n ed sacerdotal class, the Atharua-Veda is, in the main a book of spells and incantations...contents are obviously the most important of the four Vedas 1 ." The Brahmanas 5 . After the Samhitäs there grew up the theological treatises called the...