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The Development of the Vedic Canon and its Schools

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A detailed list of the texts which make out the Vedic canon does not exist in Vedic or early post-Vedic literature. There are, of course, medieval lists of Vedic exts and schools, such as those contained in the Prapañcahdaya.In the Vedic period itself, we find incipient lists which stress the particular division of the Vedic texts into three or four
branches.


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