About the Book -: The Atharva Veda knowledge store house of Atharva as, the procedures for everyday life. The text is the fourth Veda, but has been a late addition to the Vedic scriptures of Hinduism. The Atharva Veda is composed in Vedic Sanskrit, and it is a collection of 730 hymns with about 6,000 mantras. The Atharva Veda is sometimes called the Veda of magical formulas, dedicated to rituals without magic. It is one of oldest surviving record of the evolutionary practices in religious medicine and reveals the earliest forms of folk healing of Indo-European antiquity.