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such sentences ; and " illustrations" elucidate the 

 meaning of the prayers. 



It may not be superfluous to ol)serve in this 

 place, that the Itihasa and Purduas, here meant, 

 are not the mythological poems bearing the same 

 title ; but certain passages of the Indian scriptures, 

 which are interspersed among others, throughout 

 that part of the Fe^«5, called Brdhmana^ and in- 

 stances of which occur in more than one quotation 

 in the present essay. 



The dialogue between Ya'jnyawalcya and 

 Maitreyi', above-mentioned, is repeated towards 

 the close of the sixth lecture, with a short and 

 immaterial addition to its introduction. In this 

 place, it is succeeded by a discourse on the unity 

 of the soul : said, towards the conclusion, to have 

 been addressed to the two A'swins, by Dad'hyach, 

 a descendant of At'harvan. 



The fourth lecture ends with a list of the 

 teachers, by whom that and the three preceding 

 lectures, were handed down, in succession, to 

 Pautima'shya. It begins with him, and ascends, 

 through forty steps, to Aya'sya ; or, with two 

 more intervening persons, to the A'swins; and 

 from them, to Dad'hyach, At'harvan, and 

 Mrityu, or death; and, through other gradations 

 of spirits, to Vira'j ; and finally to Brahme. 

 The same list occurs again at the end of the sixth 

 lecture: and similar lists are found in the corres- 

 ponding places of this Upanishad, as arranged for 

 the Mad'hyandina ^Sdchd. The succession is there 

 traced upwards, from the reciter of it, who speaks 

 of himself in the first person, and from his imjne- 

 diate teacher Sauryana'yya. to the same ori- 



