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some which are not there found, as Asmarat'hya, Aud'ulomi, Carshna- 

 jiNi, and Casacritsna ; and the Yoga of Paianjali, which consequently is 

 an anterior work ; as indeed it must be, if its schohast, as generally 

 acknowledged, be the same Vyasa who is the author of the aphorisms of 

 the Uttara mimdnsd. 



The S'driraca is also posterior to the atheistical Sdnc'hya of Capila, to 

 whom, or at least to his doctrine, there are many marked allusions in the text. 



The atomic system of Canade (or, as the scholiast of the S'driraca, in 

 more than one place, contumeliously designates him, Cana-bhuj or Cana- 

 bhacsha) is frequently adverted to for the purpose of confutation ; as are 

 the most noted heretical systems, viz. the several sects of Jainas, the 

 Bauddhas, the Pdsiqiatas with other classes of Muheswaras, the Pdncha- 

 rdtras or Bhdgavalas, and divers other schismatics. 



From this, which is also supported by other reasons, there seems to be 

 good ground for considering the S'driraca to be the latest of the six grand 

 systems of doctrine (^darsana') in Indian philosophy: later, likewise, than 

 the heresies which sprung up among the Hindus of the military and mer- 

 cantile tribes {cshatriya and vaisi/a') and which, disclaiming the Vedas, set 

 up a Jina or a Buddha for an object of worship ; and later even than some, 

 which, acknowledging the Vedas, have deviated into heterodoxy in their 

 interpretation of the text. 



In a separate essay,* I have endeavoured to give some accoimt of the 

 heretical and heterodox sects whicii the S'driraca confutes ; and of which 

 the tenets are explained, for the elucidation of that confutation, in its 

 numerous commentaries. I allude particularly to the Jainas, Bauddhas, 

 Chdrvdcas, Pdsupatas, and Pdnchardtras. 



The Sutras of Badarayana are arranged in four books or lectures 

 (ddhydya), each subdivided into four chapters or quarters (pdda). Like 

 the aphorisms of the prior mimdnsd, tliey are distributed very unequally 

 into sections, arguments, cases, or topics, {adhicarana.) The entire number 

 of Sutras is 555; of adhicaranas, 191. But in this there is a little uncer- 

 tainty, for it appears from S'ancara, that earlier commentaries subdivided 

 some adhicaran'as, where he writes the aphorisms in one section. 



An adhicara7i'a in the later, as in the prior mimdnsd, consists of five 

 members or parts : 1st. the subject and matter to be explained; 2d. the 



* Vol. i. p. 549. 



