It is an enlarged catalogue of the Rigvedic deities worshipped in the individual suktas (hymns) of the Rigveda.
A. Macdonell concluded that the original size of the work was retained in the longer recension and that the shorter version was an abridgement of it.
He assumed the existence of a series of three scribes, who successively interpolated material onto the "core" text.
It was published by the Asiatic Society, Calcutta as a part of their Bibliotheca Indica series in 1892.
The text begins with a long introduction embracing the complete first adhyaya, and twenty-five vargas of the second.
The main body of the text beginning from the twenty-sixth varga of the second adhyaya, for the most part, is concerned with stating the deities, in their successive order, for the hymns and stanzas of the Rigveda.