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1 Intro, 3| is into ten Mandalas or 'books' (lit. 'cycles') and Suktas 2 Intro, 4| RIGVEDA.~Six of the ten books, ii to vii, are homogeneous 3 Intro, 4| occurring in each of these books. The method of arrangement 4 Intro, 4| followed in the 'family books' is uniform, for each of 5 Intro, 4| gods. On the other hand, Books i, viii, and x were not 6 Intro, 4| authorship, but of metre.~Family books.--In these the first group 7 Intro, 4| entire group of the family books is, moreover, arranged according 8 Intro, 4| the hymns in each of those books, if allowance is made for 9 Intro, 4| homogeneity of the family books renders it highly probable 10 Intro, 4| successive additions to these books.~The earliest of these additions 11 Intro, 4| was prefixed to the family books, the internal arrangement 12 Intro, 4| eighth is like the family books as being in the main composed 13 Intro, 4| form a unit of the family books; but its partial resemblance 14 Intro, 4| the other hand, the family books contain not a single Soma 15 Intro, 4| a single Soma hymn, and Books i and viii together only 16 Intro, 4| same families as those of Books ii to vii, as is shown, 17 Intro, 4| Pavamana were removed from Books i to viii, in order to form 18 Intro, 4| priest, and added after Books i-viii, which were the sphere 19 Intro, 4| than those of the preceding books; but some of them may be 20 Intro, 4| in origin than the other books; its authors were, moreover, 21 Intro, 4| of which appear in other' books; but the traditional attribution 22 Intro, 4| average of those in other books. These perhaps found a place