Ayurveda, the traditional system of medicine in ancient India, suggests a link between this Veda and medicine. Royal rituals and the duties of the court priests are also included in the Atharvaveda. In contrast to the 'hieratic religion' of the other three Vedas, the Atharvaveda is said to represent a 'popular religion', incorporating not only formulas for magic, but also the daily rituals for initiation into learning ( upanayana), marriage and funerals. Reliable manuscripts of the Paippalada edition were believed to have been lost, but a well-preserved version was discovered among a collection of palm leaf manuscripts in Odisha in 1957. Two different recensions of the text – the Paippalāda and the Śaunakīya – have survived into modern times. About a sixth of the Atharvaveda text adapts verses from the Rigveda, and except for Books 15 and 16, the text is in poem form deploying a diversity of Vedic matters. The Atharvaveda is composed in Vedic Sanskrit, and it is a collection of 730 hymns with about 6,000 mantras, divided into 20 books. The text is the fourth Veda, but has been a late addition to the Vedic scriptures of Hinduism. The Atharva Veda ( Sanskrit: अथर्ववेद, Atharvaveda from atharvāṇas and veda, meaning "knowledge") is the "knowledge storehouse of atharvāṇas, the procedures for everyday life".
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