maitreyah uvaca-Maitreya said; rk-yajuh-sama-atharva-the four Vedas;akhyan-of the name; vedan-Vedic literatures; purva-adibhih-beginning with the front; mukhaih-by the mouths; sastram-Vedic hymns not pronounced before; ijyam-priestly rituals; stuti-stomam-the subject matter of the reciters; prayah-cittam-transcendental activities; vyadhat-established; kramat-one after another.