Verse 53

⁴⁸In this age too, brahmin, the Bhagavan, who brings the worlds into being, was asked by Brahma and Siva and the other guardians of the worlds to keep dharma safe; ⁴⁹and the mighty one came down, greatly favoured one, from Parasara in Satyavati, by a portion of a portion, and made the Veda four-fold. ⁵⁰He took up the heaps of the Rc, the Atharvan, the Yajus and the Saman, group by group, and made four gatherings of the mantras, like strings of jewels. ⁵¹Calling four pupils to him, brahmin, that mighty one of great mind gave one gathering to each one of them. ⁵²To Paila he spoke the first gathering, the one called of many verses; and to the one named Vaisampayana the set of the Yajus, called the recited.

⁵³To Jaimini he spoke the gathering of the Samans, the one of the singers; and to his own pupil Sumantu the one named of Atharvan and Angiras.