Verse 19

¹⁹Seeing the pure Vedic rite of the four priests to be the people's own, he set out the one Veda in four kinds, so that sacrifice might continue. ²⁰Four Vedas were drawn out, named Rg, Yajus, Saman and Atharvan; and the history and Purana is called the fifth Veda. ²¹Of these, Paila was the holder of the Rg Veda, the poet Jaimini the singer of the Saman, and Vaisampayana alone was accomplished in the Yajus. ²²For the Atharvans and Angirases there was Sumantu, a stern sage; and for the histories and Puranas, my father Romaharsana. ²³Each of these sages divided his own Veda in many ways, and through their pupils, and their pupils' pupils, and theirs again, those Vedas came to have their branches.

²⁴So that those same Vedas might be held even by people of poor understanding, the revered Vyasa, tender towards the weak, did this. ²⁵The threefold Veda does not come within the hearing of women, of sudras, or of those who are a disgrace to the twice-born; and for those confused about the good that lies in rites, let good come about in this way. So, out of compassion, the sage made the story called the Bharata.