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The Khilani are a collection of 98 "apocryphal" hymns of the Rigveda, recorded in the Bāṣkala, but not in theŚākala shakha. They are late additions to the text of the Rigveda, but still belong to the "Mantra" period ofVedic Sanskrit.

LiteratureIsidor Scheftelowitz, Die Apokryphen des Rgveda, Breslau, 1906 [1] (http://titus.uni-frankfurt.de/texte/etcs/ind/aind/ved/rv/rvkh/rvkh.htm)Usha R. Bhise, The Khila Suktas of the Rgveda: A Study, Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute,Poona, 1995

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