चातुर्होत्रं कर्म शुद्धं प्रजानां वीक्ष्य वैदिकम् । व्यदधाद्यज्ञसन्तत्यै वेदमेकं चतुर्विधम् ॥ १९ ॥
catur-hotram karma suddham prajanam viksya vaidikam vyadadhad yajna-santatyai vedam ekam catur-vidham
- catuh
- four
- hotram
- sacrificial fires
- karma suddham
- purification of work
- prajanam
- of the people in general
- viksya
- after seeing
- vaidikam
- according to Vedic rites
- vyadadhat
- made into
- yajna
- sacrifice
- santatyai
- to expand
- vedam ekam
- only one Veda
- catuh-vidham
- in four divisions.
He saw that the sacrifices mentioned in the Vedas were means by which the people’s occupations could be purified. And to simplify the process he divided the one Veda into four, in order to expand them among men.