386 ON- THE VE DAS, 



been arranged in several classes. Thus the Cha- 

 racas, or students of a Sdc'hd, so denominated 

 from, the teacher of it, Characa, are stated as 

 including ten subdivisions ; among which are the 

 Cafhas^ or disciples of Cat"ha, a pupil ofVAi- 

 s'ampa'yana ; as also the ^SxvHdsf-wataras^ Aupa- 

 manyavas^ and Maitrayaniyas : the last mentioned 

 comprehend seven others. In like manner, the 

 Taittiriyacas are, in the first instance, subdivided 

 into two, the Audhyayas and Chaiv dicky as ; and 

 these last are again subdivided into five, the A'pas- 

 tambiyas, &c. Among them, A'pastamba's sac' ha 

 is still subsisting ; and so is A'tre'ya's, among 

 those which branched from Uc'haj but the rest, 

 or most of them, are become rare, if not altoge- 

 ther obscJete. 



Sumantu, son of Jaimini, studied the Sama- 

 "Ceda^ or Ch'dndogya, under his father : and his own 

 son, SucARMAN, Studied under the same teacher, 

 but founded a different school ; which was the ori- 

 gin of two others, derived from his pupils, Hira- 

 nYana'bha and Paushyinji, and thence branch- 

 ing into a thousand more. For L6ca'C8HI, Cu- 

 THUMi, and other disciples of Paushyinji, gave 

 their names to separate schools, which were in- 

 creased by their pupils. The S'dc'hd, entitled 

 Caufhumi, still subsists. Hiran'yana'bha, the 

 other pupil of Sue arm an, had fifteen disciples, 

 authors of Sanhitds, collectively called the northern 

 Sdmagas ; and fifteen others, entitled the southern 

 Sdmagas : and Criti, one of his pupils, had twen- 

 ty-four disciples, by whom, and by their followers, 

 the other schools were founded. Most of them 

 are now lost; and, according to a legend, were 

 destroyed by the thunderbolt of Indra. The 

 principal Sdclid now subsisting, is that of the 

 jRdridyaniyas, including seven subdivisions ; one 



