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Atharva-veda

The Atharvaveda stands aside from other Vedic texts. It accommodates each hymns and prose passages and is split into 20 books. Books 1-7 comprise magical prayers for precise purposes: spells for a protracted life, cures, curses, love charms, prayers for prosperity, charms for kingship and Brahman hood, and expiations for evil actions. They replicate the magical-non secular concerns of everyday life and are on a unique degree than the Rig-Veda, which glorifies the great gods and their liturgy. Books eight-12 include related texts but also embrace cosmological hymns that proceed those of the Rig-Veda and supply a transition to the more-complex speculations of the Upanishads. This textual content is an especially vital supply of data for sensible religion, significantly where it complements the Rig-Veda. Many rites are additionally laid down within the Kausika-sutra (the handbook of the Kausika family of clergymen) of the Atharvaveda.