A commentary on this text begins by telling a story in which a god creates independent body parts that demand a body to live on and reject the body of a cow and a horse before agreeing to be placed on a human.
A commentary on this text begins by telling a story in which a god creates independent body parts that demand a body to live on and reject the body of a cow and a horse before agreeing to be placed on a human. The Khilani is sometimes added to this text, but is younger and considered apocryphal. This text is more frequently followed by the Aitareya. This text is read by the hotar priest during sacrifices, and parts of it were incorporated into a younger text called the Yajur. This text notably describes one figure taking only three steps to cross the universe, but it consists primarily of hymns to Indra. For ten points, name this oldest and most notable of the four Vedas.
A commentary on this text begins by telling a story in which a god creates independent body parts that demand a body to live on and reject the body of a cow and a horse before agreeing to be placed on a human.
{Rig} Veda