Atharvaveda

AVS 6.48.1

Supported

śyenó 'si gāyatráchandā ánu tvā́ rabhe | svastí mā sáṃ vahāsyá yajñásyodŕ̥ci svā́hā ||1||

Translation

A falcon art thou, with ''gāyatrá'' for meter; I take hold after thee; carry me along to welfare at the close (''udṛ́c'') of this offering: hail!

ShelfmarkVG:AV:SAU:K06:S048:V001cited as AVS 6.48.1

The traditional hymn heading, not a statement inside the verse.

Insufficient evidence

No other passage in this corpus carries this wording. That is a statement about the four collections held here, not about the Vedas.

How attribution was recorded1

Three rows, not four, and the shape of the answer is the point: the Samaveda carries no seer at all, while the Yajurveda's 1,960 passages are 1,960 source-stated and 0 inherited and the Atharvaveda's 5,084 are the exact reverse. So 'how many mantras have a named seer' has three different meanings in three corpora, and a single corpus-wide figure averages a per-verse attribution against a hymn label. Prefer `source_stated` for any defensible claim about a named seer.
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