462 ON THE ve'das. 



The best known among the Brdhmanas of the 

 Sdrnax:eda, is that entitled Tdndya. It was ex- 

 pounded by Sa'yan"a'cha'rya ; but a fragment 

 of the text with his commentary, including the 

 whole of the second book (panjicd), from the sixth 

 to the tenth lecture, is all that I have been yet 

 able to procure. This fragment relates to the reli- 

 gious ceremony named Agnlshtoma. I do not 

 find in it, nor in other portions of the Sdmcrceda 

 before described, any passage, which can be con- 

 veniently translated as a specimen of the style of 

 this Veda. 



Leaving, then, the Mantras and Brdhman'as of 

 the Sdma-oeday I proceed to notice its principal 

 Upanishad, which is one of the longest and most 

 abstruse compositions bearing that title. 



The CKhcindogya Upanishad contains eight chap- 

 ters (prapdtacas), apparently extracted from some 

 portion of the Brdfiman'a^ in which they are num- 

 bered from three to ten *. The first and second, 

 not being included in the Upanishad, probably re- 

 late to religious ceremonies. The chapters are un- 

 equally subdivided into paragraphs or sections ; 

 amounting, in all, to more than a hundred and 

 fifty. 



A great part of the Ch'hdnd6gya'\ is in a didactic 

 form : including, however, like most of the other 

 Upanishads, several dialogues. The beginning 

 of one, between Saxatcuma'ra and Na'reda, 



* I bave several copies of the text, w-ith the gloss of S'ancara, 

 and annotations on it by Anandajnta'nagiri ; besides the 

 notes of Vya'sAti'rt'ha on a commentary by Ananda- 

 Ti'rt'ha. 



t Its author, indicated by Vya'sati'bt'ha, is HayagriVa, 



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