Modak 1995, pp. 34, 40, quoting H. H. Wilson who translated the whole of Rigveda following the commentary of Sayana: "Although the interpretation of Sayana may be occasionally questioned, he undoubtedly had a knowledge of his text far beyond the pretension of any European scholar and must have been in possession, either through his own learning or that of his assistants, of all the interpretations which had been perpetuated by traditional teaching from the earliest times." Modak, B. R. (1995). Sayana. Sahitya Akademi. ISBN978-81-7201-940-2.