Sūta said:: It was at the instance of Brahmā as well as with a desire for the welfare of all the worlds (that he divided the Veda). Therefore, I shall narrate to you all the classification of the Vedas in accordance with the current Manvantara. It is by adopting the mode of inferring what is beyond perception by means of what is (actually) perceptible, that we decide things of the past. O excellent ones, understand that.