661126 Lecture - Srila Prabhupada Speaks a Nectar Drop in New York

Nectar Drops from Srila Prabhupada
"The Vedic knowledge was coming by hearing. There was no need of book. But when this age, Kali-yuga, began, five thousand years before, they were recorded, and systematically... Vedas, first there was only one Veda, Atharva Veda. Then Vyāsadeva, just to make it clear, divided into four and entrusted his various disciples to take charge of one school of Veda. Then again he made Mahābhārata, Purāṇas, just to make the Vedic knowledge understandable by the common man in different ways."
661126 - Lecture CC Madhya 20.124-125 - New York