The priests, belonging respectively to the first three Vedas, are for the Rig Veda, the Hotar priest, who recites; for the S[=a]man, the Udg[=a]tar, 'the singer'; for the Y[=a]jus, the Adhvaryu, who attends to the erection of the altar, etc.
Compare Mueller, ASL.p.

468.] [Footnote 2: It is the only literature of its time except (an important exception) those fore-runners of later S[=u]tra and epic which one may suppose to be in process of formation long before they come to the front.] [Footnote 3: There are several schools of this Veda, of which the chief are the V[=a]jasaneyi, or 'White Yajus,' collection; the T[=a]ittir[=i]ya collection; and the M[=a]itr[=a]yan[=i] collection; the first named being the latest though the most popular, the last two being the foremost representatives of the 'Black Yajus.'] [Footnote 4: The different traits here recorded are given with many illustrative examples by Schroeder, in his _Literatur und Cultur_, p.

90 ff.] [Footnote 5: Compare Weber, _Ind.

Streifen_, II.

197.] [Footnote 6: Weber, _Lit_.p.