Two different recensions of the text – the Paippalāda and the Śaunakīya – have survived into modern times. About a sixth of the Atharvaveda texts adapts verses from the Rigveda, and except for Books 15 and 16, the text is mainly in verse deploying a diversity of Vedic meters. It is a collection of 730 hymns with about 6,000 mantras, divided into 20 books. The language of the Atharvaveda is different from Vedic Sanskrit, preserving pre-Vedic Indo-European archaisms. The text is the fourth Veda, and is a late addition to the Vedic scriptures of Hinduism.
The Atharva Veda ( Sanskrit: अथर्ववेदः, Atharvavedaḥ from atharvāṇas and veda, meaning "knowledge") or Atharvana Veda ( Sanskrit: अथर्वणवेदः, Atharvaṇavedaḥ is the "knowledge storehouse of atharvāṇas, the procedures for everyday life".
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