iJSO ox THE ve'das, 



pertain to the 'Afhai^ana itself. The mention of 

 the sa_c:e At hakvax in various places, throughout 

 the J'edas*, proves nothing: and even a text of 

 the Yaj lire Ma]-, where he is named in contrast 

 with the Rich, Yajusfi, and Saman, and their sup- 

 plement or Brahman'a, is not decisive. But a very 

 unexceptionaljle passage may be adduced, which 

 the commentator of the Rich has quoted, for a dif- 

 ferent purpose, from the Chliandogya Upanishad, a 

 portion of the Saman. In it, Na'reda, having 

 solicited instruction from Saxatcuma'ra, and be- 

 ing interrogated by him, as to the extent of his 

 previous knowledge, says, ' I have learnt the Rlg- 

 'ccda, the Yajurveda, the Sdmaveda, *he \4tliar- 

 van'a, [which is] the fourth, the Itihdsa and Pu- 

 rdna, [which are] a fifth, and [grammar, or] the 

 Veda of Vcdas, the obsequies of the manes, the art 

 of computation, the knowledge of omens, the re- 

 volutions of periods, the intention of speech [or 

 artof rerisoningj, the maxims of ethicks, the divine 

 .science [or construction of scripture], the sciences 

 appendant on holy writ [or accentuation, prosody, 

 and religious rites], the adjuration of spirits, the 

 art of the soldier, the science of astronomy, the 

 charming of serpents, the science of demigods [or 

 music and mechanical arts] ; all this have I stu- 

 died ; yet do I only knew the text, and have no 

 knowledge of the soul J.' 



* Vide Vcdas pass.';:). 



t In the Trntiriva Upanishad. 



I f\\ r.i::id''gi/a Upanishad, ch. 7, § !• I insert the whole 

 passage, because it contains an ample enumeration of the sciences. 

 The names, by wliicU grammar and the rest are indicated in the 

 original text, are obscure ; but the annotations of SanCARA ex- 

 plain them. 



This, like any other portion of a Veda where it is itself named, 

 (for a few other instances occur ;) must of course be more mo- 

 dem tlian another part, to which tiie name had been previouslt 



