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preserved itself intact, defying the thundering stoms and
devastating cyclones for thousands of years".
2 The CV in the AVP does not give in detail the informa-
tion relating to the other Vedas; but the literature belonging
to the AV is mentioned in full. It begins by stating the
upvedas, the got ras and the presiding deities of all the four
Vedas. It is said in the CV that Arthas盲stra is the upaveda
of the RV, whereas Katyayana says that Ayurveda is its
upaveda. Both the texts agree in saying that Dhanurveda is
the upaveda of the IV and Gandharvaveda, the upaveda of the
SV. Katyayana states that Arthas盲stra is the upaveda of the
AV, while our CV states that Ayurveda, as also abhicara
(magic), is its upaveda. The RV is said to belong to the
Atreya gotra and is presided over by Agni; the IV belongs to
the K膩艣yapa gotra and is presided over by Vayu, the SV belongs
to the Bharadvaja gotra and is presided over by Visqu; and
the AV belongs to the Vaitayana gotra as is presided over by
Brahman.鲁 K盲ty膩yana mentions Gayatri, Tristubh, Jagati and
Anustubh as the metres belonging to the four Vedas respectively.
The CV gives the number of the recensions of the RV as
They are: 1) Asval膩yana 2) s盲nkhayana 3) S盲dhy膩yana
4) Sakala 5) Ba峁�kala 6) Audumbara and 7) M盲nguka.
seven.
2. M.S.Aney, Foreword to Caranavyuha-Bhasya (ed. by Ayachit,
Poona 1954), p. 2.
3. According to Katyayana, the presiding deity of the RV is
Soma, that of the YV is Indra, and that of the SV is
Rudra. He mentions Vaikhanasa as the gotra of the AV.